"Depression is awful beyond words or sounds or images ..... It bleeds relationships through suspicion, lack of confidence and self-respect, the inability to enjoy life, to walk or talk or think normally, the exhaustion, the night terrors, the day terrors....depression gives you the experience of how it must be to be old, to be old and sick, to be dying; to be slow of mind; to be lacking in grace, polish, and coordination; to be ugly; to have no possibilities in life, the exquisiteness of music or the ability to make yourself and others laugh.

Depression is flat, hollow, unendurable....tiresome. People cannot abide being around you....you are tedious...irritable, paranoid, humorless, lifeless, critical, demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened and you're frightening."
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In other words:

Depression is dark days and endless nights. Trivial mundane tasks become insurmountable. Listening to music, take a walk or partaking in some otherwise pleasant outing or gathering with family or friends - none of these former past times bring joy to the afflicted only sadness

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One of such mysteries of depression is why people succumb when they do, why a blow that cripples one person is taken in stride by another, and why a person who has survived great adversity is laid low by one of life's predictable stumbling blocks.

This leaves one to experience a gripping, gnawing and growing feeling of emptiness