How Does Depression Feel To You?
HealthyPlace Mental Health Newsletter
Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:
- How Does Depression Feel To You?
- Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
- Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
- From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
- Stand Up for Mental Health
- Preserving Healthy Relationships With Young Adult Children
- Latest Mental Health News
How Does Depression Feel To You?
For many, it's hard to understand major depression. Phrases like "feeling sad" or "feeling blue", even "feeling hopeless", don't really capture the emotional pain of depression. HealthyPlace Facebook member, KW Vidad, shares how depression feels:
"Depression feels like being buried six feet under and you're screaming so loud, but no one seems to hear you. This is how depression feels. It's like you're screaming helplessly on the inside."
Braden Daniels describes it this way:
"The feeling of depression is like being paralyzed by sadness. Physically and emotionally paralyzed."
Nikki Jenkins adds:
"It's like a pain on the inside that nothing or no one can reach. Imagine the deepest hurt you have ever experienced. Now imagine being in that pain and state of mind day in and day out."
No Idea How Depression Feels
It's part of the human condition to want people to understand what we are going through. Relationships are based on that. To some extent, everyone has experienced physical pain and can imagine what extreme physical pain feels like. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of mental pain. That's one important reason why we hear people say things like, "just pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and other irritating sayings on this list of worst things to say to someone who is depressed.
Even if a person hasn't directly experienced extreme physical pain, we've seen it portrayed enough in movies to know what it looks and feels like. How does depression feel? Maybe if we had regular portrayals of depression in the media, there wouldn't be so many clueless people.
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- Depression and Suicide
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- Pain of Depression: Physical Symptoms of Depression
- Effects of Depression: Physical, Social Effects of Depression
- What Does a Depressed Child Look Like?
Your Thoughts
Today's Question: "How does depression feel to you?" We invite you to participate by commenting and sharing your feelings, experiences and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.
Help Spread Awareness of Mental Illness
Get Our Mental Health Blog Widget
Over 315 sites and blogs are helping spread awareness of mental illness. How about putting our mental health blogs widget on your website, blog or social page? The latest HealthyPlace blog headlines appear as soon as the articles are posted on our site. Just click "Get Widget" at the bottom of the widget, grab the embed code and paste it into your page. You'll also see embed links for Wordpress, Blogger, Linkedin and other social sites there.
As a bonus, put the blogs widget on your site or blog, email us (info AT healthyplace.com) with a page link where it appears, and we'll give a shoutout to your site, blog, or social site on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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Share our Stories
At the top and bottom of all our stories, you'll find social share buttons for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites. If you find a particular story, video, psychological test or other HealthyPlace feature helpful, there's a good chance others in need will too. Please share.
We also get many inquiries about our linking policy. If you have a website or blog, you can link to any page on the HealthyPlace website without asking us beforehand.
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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:
- Bipolar and Schizophrenia: What's the Difference?
- My Friend Abuses His Wife. How Can I Help?
- Maintaining Confidence and Control Amongst Chaos
If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.
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Mental Health Experiences
Share your thoughts/experiences with any mental health subject, or respond to other people's audio posts, by calling our toll-free number (1-888-883-8045).
You can listen to what other people are saying by clicking on the gray title bars inside the widgets located on the "Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences" homepage, the HealthyPlace homepage, and the HealthyPlace Support Network homepage.
If you have any questions, write us at: info AT healthyplace.com
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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.
- That First Depression Diagnosis – A Blessing and A Curse (Coping with Depression Blog)
- The Blame Game and Forgiveness (Anxiety-Schmanxiety Blog)
- Delusional Bipolar Depression More Common Than We Think? (Breaking Bipolar Blog)
- Rarely Mentioned Symptoms of Mania or Personality Traits? (Bipolar Vida Blog)
- Is Recovery From Chronic Mental Illness Possible? (Recovering From Mental Illness Blog)
- Mild Childhood Trauma Has Serious Disease Consequences (Trauma! A PTSD Blog)
- What NOT to Say to Kids for Building Self-Esteem (Building Self-Esteem Blog)
- Don’t Blame Insite for Cory Monteith’s Death (Surviving Mental Health Stigma Blog)
- Abuse Can Change A Victim’s True Nature (Verbal Abuse and Relationships Blog)
- Struggling with Self-Harm and Low Self-Esteem (Speaking Out About Self-Injury Blog)
- Living with Schizophrenia: Can Empathy Return? (Mental Illness in the Family Blog)
- Living with Rapid-Cycling Cyclothymia (Your Mental Health Blog)
- Advocating For Your Special Needs Child (Life with Bob Blog)
- A Deadly Belief: Myths About Suicide (More Than Borderline Blog)
- About Patricia Lemoine, Author of the Surviving ED Blog (Surviving ED Blog)
- In Defense Of The Insanity Defense (Funny in the Head: A Mental Health Humor Blog)
- Adult ADHD and Following Through (Living with Adult ADHD Blog)
- Homeless Sam: A Man With Schizophrenia Who’s Homeless (Creative Schizophrenia Blog)
Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.
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Stand Up for Mental Health
Thousands Have Joined the Stand Up for Mental Health Campaign
But we still need you. Let others know there's no shame in having depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, trichotillomania, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia or any other mental illness.
Join the Stand Up for Mental Health campaign. Put a button on your website or blog (buttons for family members, parents, mental health professionals and organizations too). We also have covers for Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
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Preserving Healthy Relationships With Young Adult Children
One of the trickiest transitions for parents to navigate is when childhood ends and young adulthood begins. The Parent Coach, Dr. Steven Richfield, has ways to promote and preserve relationships with your adult children.
Latest Mental Health News
These stories and more are featured on our mental health news page:
- Why Men Need Women
- Joyce Brown of F.I.T., on Using Your ‘Third Ear’
- Dealing With Anxiety
- Study Finds Spatial Skill Is Early Sign Of Creativity
- The Influence Of A Royal Baby
- Psychedelic Healing. Can Psychedelic Drugs Change Your Life
- The Kindness of Strangers. Being Good to Others Is Good For You
- Green With Envy? Take Control And Learn From It
- Drinking Water Can Boost Cognitive Performance
- Outgoing Youngsters Turn Out Happier In Later Life
- Childhood Psychosis Study Reveals Prevention Opportunity
- Diabetes Worsens Schizophrenia Cognitive Impairment
That's it for now. If you know of anyone who can benefit from this newsletter or the HealthyPlace.com site, I hope you'll pass this onto them. You can also share the newsletter on any social network (like facebook, stumbleupon, or digg) you belong to by clicking the links below. For updates throughout the week:
APA Reference
Staff, H.
(2013, July 24). How Does Depression Feel To You?, HealthyPlace. Retrieved
on 2024, December 26 from https://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/mental-health-newsletter/how-does-depression-feel-to-you
