Depression seems uncontrollable, bigger than you. It can strike gradually or like water engulfing you from a dam breaking open. To me depression can sometimes be like a boulder on top of me, keeping me in one spot, stopping me from doing what I need to do. The weight eventually gets comfortable and I forget or just stop caring that I should be doing something else.

I went on Facebook and asked people dealing with depression how they would describe what depression felt like to people who have never experienced it, or didn’t know what it was like. Here were some of the answers: