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Does anybody know a good piece that describes the phenomenology of depression, i. e. what it's like to be depressive, to people who have never suffered from depression? I know several people who are clinically depressed and I'd like to get a sense of what it's like.

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I don't think I have ever been really sad for more than a few hours, so depression is something that feels completely alien to me, plus I suspect that it's not quite the same thing as just being sad for a person who isn't depressive except all the time, but I feel like it's

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probably possible to at least give a *sense* of what it's like to people have never suffered from depression.

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It is actually easy. Think about those terrible 5 minutes you felt after a very bad outcome in your life. That emptiness, the void of meaning in life, the despair. That's going on most of the time for depressed people.

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I wouldn’t describe depression as prolonged sadness. I would describe it more as a debilitating combination of emptiness, listlessness, and extreme brain fog. It’s like, all the negative emotions are there, but you don’t *feel* them strongly. You just exist with them 24/7.

4:14 AM · Jan 29, 2019Twitter for iPhone