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Originally Posted by IndieVisible
I've been told I get depression. I honestly am not sure if I can say what it feels like. I can identify anxiety all too well. But depression, not so easily. It's been described as the blues, feeling sad, I can not even tell what that is. It may sound crazy to some of you. But even when I lost my son in a drowning accident and ended up hospitalized for "depression" I can't say what I felt was actually depression. It was more anger and void and hurt. Is that depression? Please feel free to hop in here and describe how your depression feels like to you as if you were trying to describe a color to a blind person. Thanks in advance!
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I don't really think feelings depression are different for person to person It's pretty objective in terms to how it makes you feel. It's usually feeling really sad for a prolonged period of time without any specific reason. If there is a reason like a loss of a loved one I doubt that's actually depression because there is a specific reason and the mind needs time to heal from the incident. However if the sadness and empty feeling lasts too long (more than 6 months) and you have a hard time functioning then doctors would diagnose you as having major depressive disorder. The feelings of depression are just mind numbing and horrible it always felt like my brain was on fire or "blocked" your whole mind and body aches and simple tasks are hard to accomplish. In my opinion it's even worse than anxiety since anxiety tends to come in short bursts and can be medicated fairly easily with benzodiazapines.