Depression is...

Depression isn't always suicide.
Depression eats your insides with a smiles on its face.
Depression is the illusion that the world has turned its back on you and everyone in it.
Depression is when you cant sleep and you get so bored looking at the ceiling that you spend nights, weeks contemplating what to do with it only to find that you wouldn't have enough determination to do so.
Depression is the voice in the back of your head telling you that you need help.
Depression isn't just having too little, its having too much as well.
Depression is slow motion and fast motion at the same time.
Depression is when the only thing that cares is depression itself.
Depression has the feeling of death, without the dying part.
Depression is the killing of the broken pieces of your heart.
Depression is seeing happiness wherever you go.
Depression is never seeing you father happy.
Depression is losing your brother to his girlfriend.
Depression isn't contemplating suicide, but wishing you were already there.
Depression is when your at school and you cant remember things you learned in grade 5.
Depression is hating yourself because your parents hate you.
Depression is the look in your eyes when you wake up in the morning knowing you have to live another day.
Depression is hoping to survive and hoping not to at the same time.
Depression runs your life, makes you do things you shouldn't.
Depression is still killing you even if you have the best things in the world.
Depression makes you who you are and who you'll always never want to be.
Depression makes you miss your old self, but once your better, you miss depression.
Depression is when you have had it so long that you are scared of who you will be when and if you get better.
Now ask yourself, do you have depression?

--I found a little something sort of like this, written in this format on another website. I thought some of the words up there that were said were true and insightful. Now, everyone has their own opinion on depression and I'm not expecting everyone to agree.

(June 2009)