What does depression feel ike?

Question

I suffer from anxiety/depression. How does it feel like for you guys?

Answer 1

i feel like i was going to die of something all the time and i was scared to even drive my car. i couldn't go to sleep before 3am every night and then i would sleep all day. i would have aches a pains in my shoulders and chest and arms and neck. i would always think that i was having a heart attack or a stroke. sometimes evey kidney failure or a blood clot in my leg. i could barely take care of my children and the house. my house would look like a wreck most of the time. i would even visit the er with these symptoms and they would say that it was anxiety. when i would have a full blown attack my arms would get tingly and i would feel like i couldn't breathe and my muscles in my arms would tighten up and i couldn't move them. but since i have been on klonopin and lexapro and ambien at night to help me sleep i no longer feel that way. i even now have a full time job. so i feel much better. i hope that you get some meds and therapy because it will help you alot i speak from experiance

Answer 2

Like it's not really ever going to get any better. I don't enjoy doing anything and have this pessimistic attitude that just doesn't seem to go away.

If it follow with anxiety then it gets hard to breathe and I would rather be anywhere but where I am at in life, at least for the moment.

But the depression sets in even when I am somewhere else and its like I want to escape or change things but can't seem to find the way. I know the problem is within me and not in the circumstances I am facing.

If only I had a really good noncritical friend that doesn't judge me that I can share everything I really feel and think and still be ok without fear then maybe I can start to feel better to get everything off of my chest. But somehow I think that talking about it constantly will not change it and only probably make the other person depressed too. So the change has to come from within but I don't know where to start.

Since I suffer from this, a 12 step program helps me, Accept the things you cannot change, change the things you can and the wisdom to know (its me) the difference. Also reading motivational books, or inspiring books help. Religious books to see the more important things or just going out for a walk, exercise might help. Journaling helps sometimes too. It doesn't have to stay that way, you can change it.

If you need to talk send me an email and I will be happy to lend you some support. We all need it from time to time.

Answer 3

You feel miserable and sad.
You feel exhausted a lot of the time with no energy .
You feel as if even the smallest tasks are sometimes impossible.
You seldom enjoy the things that you used to enjoy-you may be off sex or food or may 'comfort eat' to excess.
You feel very anxious sometimes.

You don't want to see people or are scared to be left alone. Social activity may feel hard or impossible.

You find it difficult to think clearly.

You feel like a failure and/or feel guilty a lot of the time.

You feel a burden to others.

You sometimes feel that life isn't worth living.

You can see no future. There is a loss of hope. You feel all you've ever done is make mistakes and that's all that you ever will do.
You feel irritable or angry more than usual.

You feel you have no confidence.

You spend a lot of time thinking about what has gone wrong, what will go wrong or what is wrong about yourself as a person. You may also feel guilty sometimes about being critical of others (or even thinking critically about them).
You feel that life is unfair.

You have difficulty sleeping or wake up very early in the morning and can't sleep again. You seem to dream all night long and sometimes have disturbing dreams.

You feel that life has/is 'passing you by.'

You may have physical aches and pains which appear to have no physical cause, such as back pain.

Answer 4

I no longer suffer from this due to hitting rock bottom and having my whole perspective of life changed but as I remember it, it takes your life and throws a viel over your eyes. Everything is darker, everything feels worse than it is, little things become huge, energy is gone, hope is a joke, important matters such as a job or school are meaningless in the grand scheme of things, you are drawn to the sad and depressing which could include music, movies or people. Thoughts of death or fantisizing about ones own death was common and an everyday activity and writing quite litterally is what kept me alive.

Answer 5

Mentally, it feels like my brain is in a black fog. Emotionally, it feels like my heart will explode from the pain and heaviness. Physically, it feels as if something like taking a shower takes way too much energy. Everything feels pointless and hopeless. I'm always tired, even after over 10 hours of sleep. I feel like there's something wrong with me that despite having above average intelligence and accomplishments in the past, I am unable to function as a human being. Can't eat, can't do the grocery shopping, can't do laundry, etc. Life seems like a long tunnel filled with more pain and hardship. No amount of joy seems worth all the pain. I see people jogging and I wonder why they are so eager to live longer when I just pray for death to come as soon as possible. I wonder how they even have the energy to jog. I wonder how it is that they've done every other chore and errand there is to do and still found time to jog. The most basics of human functioning baffle me. It is a horrible horrible place to be....it is a mental, emotional and physical hell that comes with the added bonus of people judging you, placing blame on you and saying things like, "snap out of it." As if anyone would want to feel that way and wouldn't just SNAP OUT OF IT if they could.

Answer 6

It feels a lot like being very tired for me. I lose the desire to do anything, and sometimes my appetite changes. For example I may want to eat a lot of junk food, or not eat at all.

Answer 7

Like the world hates you, Like you aren't good enough, You will ever equal to anything,

Like you wish you never woke up those mornings/weeks/months/years.

Mmm, gotta love that feeling.

Answer 8

cant explain.