It also feels like falsly laughing in order to act normal or to make someone happy (like your kid, sming and laughing at the park to make him believe you are happy too), at work (laughing with co-workers about a joke or situation to fit in and pretend you are normal)...

at home no need to fake it (lack of sleep/insomnia), not wanting to do any sequences of tasks, such as (getting up going to buy something (example groceries), going to best buy to look at electeonics, then taking kid to the park, then going to Barnes and noble to drink a hot chocolate, reading an e-book and so on)). Sometimes people with depression don't want to do any thing, we pretend to be happy or ok, when we are not, we worry too much a out the tomorrow, about the what Ifs and so on.

That is how depression is like from a surviver of depression (me). And sometimes it gets worse in certain people where they may even consider suicide as the only way out of this pain (thanks God I have never gotten to this point, but have been close to). Hope all of our feedbacks help you understand what depression is like from testimonies of sufferers like me.