Posted by pegasus on April 8, 2009, at 14:24:09
In reply to What does depression feel like?, posted by yellowbird01 on April 7, 2009, at 17:50:44
There's a song by Dar Williams about depression that has this line that always rang so true for me:
. . . it felt like
A winter machine that you go through and then
You catch your breath and winter starts again
And everyone else is spring boundAt the worst, it feels like I'm underwater, or under molasses. Every little thing takes so much effort, and provides so little reward, and I have lost connection with anything positive.
I remember once at a bad time being at an airport, and seeing a young mom with a baby in one of those car seat carriers. I looked at that baby and felt the most intense heartbreak that that poor innocent child would have to go through a whole life. That's become my indicator of depression now. When I start feeling sorry for babies, because they have to endure being alive, then I know it's time to seek help.
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