Heather Eyre A distance between you and the world. Lorraine Knight Torture…hell actually exists but it’s inside your mind. You want any emotion not just to be happy being angry or sad would be better than numb.ĪNON Depression is like someone else having the remote control and constantly switching channels without asking you what you would like to watch. It feels like everything’s falling apart and worthless even if it’s not. This is how depression feels for them, in their wordsĬhristina McMellon I have been describing it recently as a guy inside my head shouting at me and telling me I’m shit 24 hours a day.Ĭharlotte ER Like the worst day of your life, every single day. This is why, we so often ask our community to contribute to our blog posts – it allows them to use their negative experiences in a positive way, to have a voice and an outlet for the things they have been through. We passionately believe that those with lived experience of depression are the best qualified to educate about depression, especially the reality and impact if it – how it feels, what helped, what didn’t. Quite possibly because the illness affects different people in different ways, it makes it confusing for those who desperately want to understand and support. Maybe its because the social stigma means that there’s already an existing prejudice about the illness which creates a culture of fear – for both the sufferer and their loved ones. Perhaps it’s because it’s not a widely spoken about illness – despite being a common one. So, why then, is depression so different? We can appreciate that a broken leg must hurt like hell, that childbirth must be excruciating and we can even muster up compassion for those who are heartbroken – despite not being able to ‘see’ the pain THEY feel. We’re able to feel empathy and compassion for those who are in physical pain, even if we’ve not experienced that exact physical pain ourselves.

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