16 Analogies for Depression

Depression can be hard to describe and even harder whenever your the one going through it thats why we at Psych2go asked our readers, listeners and viewers who have or are experiencing depression to share their analogies for depression. We hope that if you are living with depression and struggle to explain it to others, that this video can help you.
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[aoberry]

It just feels tiring. It feels like, no matter how long you sleep, your always tired.

[foxsmith]

I think the scariest part is feeling numb. When nothing can make you feel anything, you can't feel happy, angry, sad, etc. You're just empty inside

[peteypoo]

It’s feeling alone in a crowd of people. It’s not being able to feel anything but also everything at once.

[ZerMtDew]

Depression makes you feel like a book. It feels like nobody cares enough to even look at the inside. All they see is the cover you put on.
The one person the does read the book is so special. They read all the pages you already write, and give you the ink to write more. But instead of sad chapters, the new pages are bright and happy.
Then the thoughts come in, staining the pages. It keeps you from reaching out to the special person. The new paragraphs become darker than before and its scary. I hate depression.

[ilovefictionalcharacters]

*its like your drowning and people are shouting “learn to swim!”*

[purplefire]

Here's my analogy for depression:
Depression is like being frozen in time while everyone is moving. It's feeling unable to do anything, go anywhere, be who you want to be. And at the same time, everyone around you is growing, changing, *living*. And you're totally inert, helpless to change your situation.

[DruidFae]

Depression feels like you’re drowning while every one else is breathing

[RonnieRose]

I think of my depression like a raincloud. I can push it away with funny videos like sunshine can break through the cloud, but once it’s gone, suddenly I’m just flooded with the feelings of hopelessness, loneliness, sadness, and feelings of suicide. The rain just keeps pouring until that sunshine manages to break through again.
It’s tough, man. Having to constantly be on YouTube in order to keep myself from cutting or hanging myself. People always ask me why I’m on YouTube so much, but I can’t just say that it’s practically saving my life.
Sorry, but I just needed to vent. 😔

[nicoleshaw]

It feels like being mentally colour blind but constantly being told how colourful the world is

[Billnet-lkxh]

“The pain in my heart just wont end, the words that I find just don’t seem to compare”
-Xxxtentacion, 2017

[MWolfe-vuqg]

I could add one:
I feel like a ghost. I can be sitting in a crowd of people but their voices are far away. The closest voices are the ones in my head, and they tell me I’m not supposed to be here anymore. That I’ve overstayed my welcome. I try to say back ‘I don’t want to be anywhere else. Wouldn’t my parents miss me as much as I would miss them?” And they try to say to me: ‘No. Even they know you’re supposed to be gone.’
Staying alive can feel like resistance, but that’s the kind of rebellion I believe in.

[rxse.]

I have heavy depression and anxiety...i have the feeling that- nobody likes me and nobody cares. I’ve trusted so many people with all of my heart and they just throw me away like i’m trash...i’ve fallen in a deep hole of sadness, suicidalness and self-hate. I have one friend that’ll stay with me forever...the only thing that cheers me up is music.








That’s- depression.

[eibhlinnidhonnachadha]

I have been told that I don't have depression.
But that doesn't explain the nagging, poking, weight in my chest, and sometimes my head, that reminds me constantly that, even when I'm laughing, I'm not truly happy.
Yesterday was particularly bad. It wasn't the numbing weight that I usually experience, it was...a silent anger at first. Then, as the day progressed, all my energy was sapped by the weight in my chest. Like an emotional leech... _Or a dementor._ Nothing seemed okay. I just wanted to lie in bed on my phone and sleep for hours at a time.
I ate, I took a shower, I did chores, and I'm not going to lie, the self-care helped a little, even if it only helped temporarily. But I soon got sucked back into the depths.
Some days, it's self-loathing, it wasn't so much self-loathing as it was self-hating and the energy being sucked away. Just lying in bed for hours, unable to tell anyone, because _it's not depression._

[roseblue]

I don’t care if I’m late but mine is “ sometimes your fine but others it feels like your screaming in pain but all that comes out as laughter”

[Kim-rjgh]

depression feels like something heavy is on your chest and you can’t breath, you are always tired and unmotivated. You just feel empty

[luckynumber]

It's like a dull, boring song constantly playing in your head, never stopping. Sometimes it's quiet and you can somewhat ignore it, but other times it's blaring. Its nearly impossible to hear the outside world with it always playing. You can never control it, its always there.

[justwastingtime]

For me it's like running a marathon then you see the finish line but every step you take the line goes farther and farther away not being able to finish but so desperately trying to

[pdraheim]

It's like walking upstream
Through a current strong enough to pull me under four times over.
There are others with me.
And they are walking along the banks,
telling me to "just get out of the water"..
Without extending a hand for help,
they just move on and leave me behind
But every once an a while,
I find a rock.
Strong enough to lean on rest for a bit,
But the rocks are always tired of holding me up
And when they let go, I'm left drowning,
Thrown 50 ft back again
And nothing is harder
Then standing in that current
And everything in you
Is telling you how much easier things would be If you jut let yourself get dragged under

[grimTales]

The TV analogy is on point.
It feels like, you're existing but not really living :( Filled with sadness and loneliness.

[cryingfuck]

Depression is like a maze,
Everyone else gets to finish the maze.
But you didn’t, you tried every way to finish it.
But you didn’t.