Depression feels…

  • As if a dark cloud envelops your entire world. Everything is gloomy. All color has disappeared. You can’t see properly who or what is around you.
  • As if you have fallen in an abyss. You are clutching at the sides but gravity is pulling you down with all its might. You have fallen that deep you can’t even see the light anymore.
  • As if you are tagging along an ocean of grief, that spills out whenever it wants to. Once the flood gates are opened, there is no stopping.
  • As if you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. It is bearing you down. Completely.
  • As if you are nothing, you have nothing, you feel nothing (except excruciating pain and devastating sadness)
  • As if all energy is seeping out of you, consistently. Even the smallest thing seems insurmountable and too much effort.
  • As if your body has been infected by some potent virus, or sleeping disease. Your body feels sore, you have pains and aches. All food has lost its flavor.
  • As if you are a zombie, a half dead. You are going through the motions on automatic pilot. You don’t feel anything except sorrow, sadness, irritation. Everything is bland.
  • As if your head is stuffed with cotton wool. You try to numb the pain and heartache and in the process succeeded in dulling all your senses. You can’t think properly anymore. You can’t even decide if you want to get out of bed or stay there forever.
  • As if you are locked up in your own head, with incessant negative thoughts, that are dragging you down. Drowning you, drowning out all positivity. Your ruminations are relentless, they are not giving you any rest. You are stuck in a selective, grey past, haunted by every word that ever hurt you or any minor action you did. There is no present or future.
  • As if you are stuck in a black hole, all that mattered got sucked in and disappeared. You no longer care about your previous interests. It’s even difficult to remember you once enjoyed these things. They seem gone forever. There’s just you and your debilitating thoughts, going round and round, in a vicious circle. No escape, no way to get back to earth.
  • As if life is no longer worth living. As if you would be doing the world a favor if you were no longer there.

If you recognize any of the above descriptions, send us a text. There is help out there. We can help you carry the weight.

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