[waggiedog]

Depression is not just a mental feeling, I find it's physical too. It's hurts, in the heart, like a kinda grief but I don't know what I'm grieving for. Is it that my life is standing still while ''normal'' peoples go on, while ''they'' are so busy living that they don't worry and feel there'll never be light at the end of the tunnel? That nothing you do is worthwhile? That all you ever have to do is ''pretend'' life's fine? Does anybody else feel this or is it just me? x

[yellowted]

with every illness be it physical or mental health comes a period of grief. this is normal. you are grieving for the life you had planned for yourself, and the time your illness has taken from that plan. like any grief this takes time to work through and accept. be gentle with yourself, and try to focus on each day as it comes celebrate what you can do that day rather on what others or yourself perceive you should be doing. even a duvet day has purpose...it replenishes body and brain a little more.

[shamon86]

I understand exactly what you are saying waggiedog. I felt that same way for years until I finally talked to my doctor about it. I used to lay in bed and curl up in a ball tyring to make the pain and grief go away. Have you talked to a therapist or gone to a doctor about it?
I hope you feel better soon

[Pierro]

It got to the stage where I was so worn out from depression that people could see there was someting wrong with me. I looked so tired and worn out that people would avoid me at work. I didnt give a damn about anything and my physical health ws going down the pan. Things can get better though, just because you feel like this now doesnt mean that you are going to be like this forever. I hope you are getting treatment for your depression. Best wishes to you.

[waggiedog]

Thankyou all very very much for your valid and kind remarks ~ ~ it's a big comfort to hear that you have, or do, feel these things too. I hope that you don't feel like this now, I'm still struggling but I'm going to mention this 'phyical' feeling to my Dr. I haven't before because I thought it was '' all in my head '' .

I send you HUGZZ and LOVES. XX

[Altered Moment]

It is a very physical thing for me. I never feel sad. Feelings wise I just feel numb. My biggest two symptoms are no energy and no motivation. Just plain physically and mentally totally tired.

[Quarter life]

Yes dear W.D...ever so physical.

I feel it through my back and shoulders all the way to my teeth. Like I'm searching for a place I have known but lost, and my bones ache with wanting to be there.

Be kind to yourself my friend. Q.L

Depression has a terrible way of metastasizing into an ugly emotional and physical monster. It messes with your sleep, your eating, and your way of life. I feel an ache in the middle of my chest. Like it's empty. Or maybe it's been replaced with just a solid metal weight. I feel heavy and my thoughts bounce around like crazy insane rabbits gnawing at the edges of my mind.

It's also so interesting to me that depressed people are the ones who think about life's big questions and look at it as a whole. It's like staring at the sun without sunglasses, we wince and tear up and eventually go blind of hope. I guess I just don't remember how it was to not think about the big questions in life and continue wandering in search of my own purpose without fear of my own mind turning against me.

[TheOriginalMe]

Mine is a crushing slab of stone pressing against my chest, pushing the last traces of breath out from me. Sometimes I only have the strength to open one eye, I'm doing that right now.