Depression isn't sadness. Not even deep sadness. In fact, take the deepest sadness and grief and anguish you could possibly imagine, and that would be an improvement.
Why? Because even sadness and grief and anguish mean you still feel something.
Depression is having a steady supply of novocaine pumped into your skull where your brain should be.
Depression is the feeling that your body is a ten-ton weight you're dragging around.
Depression is not having the energy to attempt suicide.
Depression is looking at a plate of your favorite food and picking at it even though you're so hungry your stomach lining is trying to eat itself.
Depression is feeling like everything inside you has already died and you're just passing the time until your body catches on.
Depression is not even caring whether or not you care.
Depression is deliberately injuring yourself because even pain is better than nothing.
Depression is not being able to sleep past 5AM unless you've been awake longer than 20 hours prior.
Depression is not even sleeping so much as being occasionally unconscious.
Depression is whenever people talk about the future, you feel left out because you don't have one.
Depression is Hell.
