Depression Awareness Week

Hi @MoonGal,

Thanks for posting the article by Tim Lott; I thought it was quite accurate in it's description of depression. I have read a few good articles over the years about depression and when I find a good one (one that rings true for me) I always feel better about myself for some reason.... I don't feel so alone.

It must be extremely difficult for anyone who has not had depression to understand how it feels. I don't think that it's possible. For me, it felt like ordinary sadness but multiplied by about a thousand times. It was also completely terrifying. I would wake up to pure, blind, white terror every morning. I would wish I was dead so as I did not have to suffer one more single day of it.

My head felt like a huge, leaden weight on my shoulders. My chest felt crushed, but the rest of my body felt empty. It was hard to focus on anything and I was teary and shaking a lot. I was seized with sheer panic at the thought of doing almost anything. I also felt like I was going insane and that I would never recover. It was like being trapped in an on-going nightmare.

The difference between a healthy mind and a depressed mind is monumental.

@Sahara - I loved your creative and insightful description of how you experience depression. It rings true too for my experience of it.

I liked your post @Sahara because of your description, not because of the state.

The article was interesting for mainstream journal. I hesitated about his mention of his mum's suicide, but on researching, found he had written a book about her and so felt more accepting that he mentioned it, deliberately to draw a distinction between depression and a purely reactive grief.