I Find It Hard To Explain What It’s Like To Live With Depression, So I Draw It

per me è sempre stata un grande buco nero che mi stava dietro. a volte più vicino, a volte più lontano, per un periodo credevo anche di averlo seminato, ma non si può cancellare una parte della propria vita e negli ultimi anni è di nuovo qui, più vicino che mai. for me it was always a big black hole that was behind me. sometimes closer, sometimes farther away, for a time I also thought I had sown it, but you can not erase a part of your life and in the last few years it's here again, closer than ever.

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sai che in fondo sei una donna fortunata, che hai amici, una relazione, una casa, un lavoro, tanti hobby, animali che ti amano, insomma tutto quello che volevi, ma è come se fosse tutto dall'altra parte di un vetro, irraggiungibile, ed inutile. You know that after all you are a lucky woman, you have friends, a relationship, a home, a job, lots of hobbies, animals that love you, in short, everything you wanted, but it's like everything else on the other side of a glass, unattainable, and useless.

amazing how well she pictures these feelings...and so sad...people who do not identify don't want to see these....

painful so painful

I too was a clown to the world. But alone at home I cried inside and out. :(

That tiny fraying paining thread of hope. Mostly hope I didn't believe in , but my most trusted dr and counselor did.

This is how my life feels most if the time.. One day you feel you won't give in to the voices that tell you how useless you are and when tomorrow rolls around, you're sitting down writing 'those' letters once again.... Some people want riches... I just want to feel 'normal'...

Oh my God can I relate to this.

This sums up why I don't have friends.. Never been a good actor either...

this is my ex. and part of the reason she left...

the style of this drawing is depression it self...is this person OK? there is help available I am 71 and have dealt with this all my life there is hope...never give up on yourself...

i have bpd so i feel u :( its so sad that we're strangers and are connecting on THIS topic

Venlafaxine. Oh yes.

Yes. Thank you.

If I break apart, will I then stop feeling?

To others it seems to be a choice, but it isn't.

This. Carrying so much heavy weight. So hard to do anything.

I don't think it is the heart I think it is the mind...

These are outstanding. I can totally relate as a fellow high functioning major depressive. Thank you, CHuZ.

I could relate to most of it but I’m always told that it’s delusional and the psychiatrist had it all wrong