I personally think it's the inability to to what you used to be able to do. Because once I get rolling I can keep it up for a decent amount of time but the energy required to get the inertia is just way too high in the morning. My batteries are lowest in the morning and my thoughts are worst in the evening but not being able to do stuff during the day really just takes the cake in what I hate about depression. I don't even care that I'm pretty much a robot with the amount of emotions I'm missing. Just give me my productivity back please

[GenCat]

For me, its the hopelessness and the changes my body goes through, like loseing interest in the things you once loved doing. That breaks my heart.

[Altered Moment]

For me it is the total lack of energy and motivation.
Even when I am not depressed the energy it takes to get over that hump to get going.

[Curupira]

Feeling my mind slow down. I have always lived in my head, and when the depression sets in I feel trapped there, stuck in a repeating loop, brain slowed to a near stand still, trying to pull my thoughts together, incapable of weaving the threads together into something coherent.

[pudica]

I agree completely with GenCat.
It's the hopelessness.

[regretful]

Although hopelessness resonates, it is the emptiness that is the worst for me. I find nothing to be worthwhile...

[catsrhelm]

For me it is the sadness that accompanies it that hurts the worst.

[Denman]

The worst and most frustrating part of Depression for me is not feeling any better, despite medications, and therapy. I don't know when these medications will ever kick in, and when I will ever start feeling good again. There are days when I feel good, than I have a few days where I'm right back to where I was.

[paynful]

I can't forgive myself.

While my failures HURT, it's the fact that I can't bring myself to TRY... that FIRST step is the hardest for me, but I don't have the ENERGY TO BEGIN... and I can't FORGIVE myself for not having "it" in me. I HATE myself for being weak.

[HealingTimes]

For me its the 'nothingness' that's the worst. No emotions, no energy, no motivation, no cognitive ability, nothing.

[doyoutrustme]

Being alive.

[Hellion]

That empty cold sinking feeling....or when my mood has been doing ok for a while and then I get that feeling of being entirely crushed by something heavy and dark which is usually a sign my depression is back for a visit(though it never really leaves, sometimes its just less severe so I don't feel so depressed).

[20broken17]

For me it's the emptiness and the lack of will to do anything or simply to be here. I hate feeling hopeless and empty when thing aren't so bad and I should be happy, but I simply can't. I get sucked into a black hole and I can't get out.

[shabur]

Feeling confused all the time and knowing my life is gone.

[krisakira]

Lack of energy and motivation, like what has already been said.

[Akua]

Not caring at all about ANYTHING.

[TheOriginalMe]

The sacrifices that I make to keep well hurt me the most when I'm depressed. When I'm well the sacrifices are worth it and I feel free. When I'm depressed I think what is the point - I given up so much and I'm still depressed. The loneliness is pretty hard too, as is the desperation and the lack of motivation. Sleep deprivation is nasty too, especially when I start hallucinating through lack of sleep. The worst thing of all is "losing" my happy memories. There have been some relatively infrequent times when I have been really happy. When I'm depressed I lose the ability to recall the good emotions that those memories should bring.

[Bark]

How the way I think completely changes for the worse. The physical aspect is bad enough without your mind turning against you.

[snarkydaddy]

Originally Posted by keeprolling

I personally think it's the inability to to what you used to be able to do. Because once I get rolling I can keep it up for a decent amount of time but the energy required to get the inertia is just way too high in the morning. My batteries are lowest in the morning and my thoughts are worst in the evening but not being able to do stuff during the day really just takes the cake in what I hate about depression. I don't even care that I'm pretty much a robot with the amount of emotions I'm missing. Just give me my productivity back please

I am with you all the way here from productivity to being a robot.

Additionally some times connected to productivity, sometime inter personal....meaning not be reliable or dependable

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[TheJettSet27]

All of it sucks - just gonna throw that out there. The worst part for me would have to be the emptiness and feelings of disconnection with my friends. I can smile - but only for a second. I just feel...unimportant and not able to empathize with them at all.

[A hopeless optimist]

The relationships with friends and family. They don't know who I am anymore, they don't understand why I am acting this way... they get frustrated when it seems like i'm not trying. they try to help, but when they don't see results they start to pull away..

[donna450]

I find when I'm depressed that the loss of intersction with my husband, dsughters, grandkids. They may not realize it but I am fully aware of what is happening to me but sometimes not what my depression is doing to them.
But I've lived with it for 40 years and since bipolar runs in the family its not hard when my mom was alive. But I'm sure my dad doesn't quite understand. My husband and kids leave to my misery but at times trying to get me to laugh to lighten the load.

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[ChangingMyMind]

For me the worst part about depression is the feeling of hopelessness, as if things will never get better and nobody in the world even cares. I find myself thinking about the world and how people treat each other quite a bit when I'm depressed and it only makes it worse because I can only think of the bad things.

The other thing I hate about it is that when you feel like you've concurred the physical and mental symptoms they get worse and you have to start all over.

[mulan]

This reminds me that I had post something very similar to your question... for me at the time was essencialy my brain fog, I was very focus on that...no motivation, feeling me plus the world as unreal things, the emptyness, and being always sleepy and tired bother me as well, I think there are lots of things is hard to pick one.

[gayleggg]

The loss of joy from life and the utter hopelessness.