When I read the description of the dementors for the first time in the Harry Potter books I didn't connect it with depression. Over the years everyone has come to know the dementors as a metaphor for depression...and a brilliant one at that.

I feel like in the past 18 months every good memory has been sucked out of me. Not only that but in the present I find little happiness.

My depression is slowly slowly slowly lifting...but I find myself in a place where everything feels wrong.

I am wondering if others have felt this way coming out of depression.

I have had a few other major depressions. Oddly, I don't remember much about how it felt when they faded away.

I don't find many descriptions online of people coming out of depression without medication. If you had the experience of coming out of a depression without medication I am particularly interested in your comments. Thanks.