HOW I FEEL IN THE WORDS OF OTHERS

Here what other people say on their struggles with depression some thoughts can resonate what you really feel or what you are really going through.  You are not alone in this tough journey.  Other souls really understand you.

1. "It's so difficult to explain depression to someone who's never been there, because it's not just sadness." (J.K. Rowling)

Many people have misconception about depression, they consider it as a normal "lows" of each person.  It is more than this, and if they only understand it better, they don't want to be in this battle.

2. "Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced... it's that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sadness hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different." (J.K. Rowling)

Depression is more than or far from being "normally sad".  Its's an experience of darkness that once you've experience, you don't want to dream of going back into it.


3. "Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore." (J.K. Rowling)

Depression gives you an unbearable pain that you just wanted to end it in any possible means.


4. "My depression was characterized by a numbness, a coldness and an inability to believe you will feel happy again. All the color drained out of life." (J.K. Rowling)

Depression robbed us any color in life, yes it's dark but it is also colorless.

5. "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Sometimes people judge us that we are aloof or cold, but the truth is we are sad inside, a deep sadness that they can't fully grasp.

6. "I am living in a nightmare from which from time to time I wake in sleep." (Ursula K Le Guin)

Depression suffocates you from time to time and it is difficult to escape it. You struggle hard to keep yourself alive.

7. "You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective, it just means you're human." (David Michell)

Some people say that we shouldn't feel in this way because there are many beautiful things happening in our life.  And so when we become depressed, they think that we are not normal.

8. "If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking." (Elizabeth Wurtzek)

You don't know until when you have to fight with your depression, but one thing is sure... it is a constant battle.