Depression is....

Depression is knowing that your future is in the hands of other people at the moment and you may not recover what they are trying to take away from you.

Depression is a deep hole that you fell into and can't get out of. No matter how much you try, you need someone else to save you from being trapped in it forever.

Depression is like being in the dark, all alone, because the raging storm has knocked the power out for an indefinite period of time, and you don't even have a flashlight.

When you're tired of moving forward. When you feel like it's gotten to be too much just to be awake and breathing. When opening your eyes in the morning feels like the worlds biggest task and the thing you would rather do over anything else is stay in bed and never open your eyes and stay in dream world for as long as you possibly can

Depression is not believing in a god because it is the only way this is not personal. I can take getting dealt a crappy evolutionary or genetic hand, but not that there is some mythological being out there who thinks I am better off this way.

Deppresion is like trying to breath under water

Depression is trying to love and hold onto something that hurts you, kills you slowly.

Depression is
I think it really is that frustrating because i don't know how much of it is due to the "diagnosis" and "disease" and how much of it is just me being a screwup and worthless...

Depression is...opening your eyes each morning and wishing you hadn't.

Depression is....... like being sucked into a black whirlpool. However hard you try you just get pulled further into drowning.

Depression is like "winning the battle, while loosing the war." [unknown]

hurting. I hate this feeling.

Depression is believing that you are completely alone in your fight, regardless of how many people tell you that you can call them.

Likewise, it's believing that you'll never find a therapist who will be compassionate and empathetic enough, or a medication (or combination thereof) that will actually work. You're alone in your fight, and you always will be.

Depression is like walking along a beuatiful trail with a cinder in your shoe that keeps distracting you from seeing the beauty that surrounds you.

Depression is waiting all day for a friend to call just to say "Hi" so that you know you are alive.

Depression is like hell when your love is betrayed.

Depression is: trying to get up and live, trying to function and 'get better' -- but always feeling, at some level, that nothing is ever going to be what you want, you will never truly be happy, you're just kidding yourself, and there's no real point to any of it anyway.

Depression is as frustrating as it must be for my wife and family to understand my disgusting feelings. Depression is something I'm tired hearing people make fun of as weak when they don't know I've been diagnosed as such.

depression is confusion, not knowing why i feel this way or how to fix it. i hate it. i hate not having a reason when that is the one thing everyone is asking for.

Depression is like being a puppet with broken strings. Depression is no longer being in control of your mind and body.

Depression is who I am, because I cant remember ever not being depressed, cant remember a time when I was happy, can only remember feeling empty, and in pain

Depression is having all happiness taken from you, and all it does is come back for more and more, till one day you end up dry of emotion, unable to feel

Depression is being a cripple

Depression is being hungry for something and you don't know what, so you starve for the day, and then the next, and the next, until no one recognizes you anymore. Depression is realizing you are lost.

Whoa, scary. Someone else just posted the word treacle in another forum. That is a relatively unheard of word, at least for me. Pray tell, what does it mean?

Depression is imagining yourself killing yourself a million different ways to find the most effective way with the highest success rate.

Depression is being worried about having to go to Disneyland because you know you will be the most sad person at the happiest place on Earth...

Depression is wondering every moment of the day if it is worth it to hang on or to simply let go. Depression is being convinced every day that you should just let go, forever.