People think depression is just being sad. It's not.

It’s like everything drains away. You don’t feel human anymore. As it gets worse, you start to feel nothing at all. It’s numbness and darkness. Emptiness. You’re a monster. You’re terrified. And you can’t fight it. It’s not like physical pain. It’s so much worse. Maybe if people understood that, nobody would attack someone else for what’s wrong in their life. Maybe nobody would have to feel alone anymore. It’s this horrible creeping feeling. It starts in your chest and spreads in all directions. It fills your head with lies that you start to believe. The lies are the truth and the truth is a lie. Nothing is real anymore. All you know is you can’t remember what it was like to feel. It's staying in all week looking forward to the weekend. And then when the weekend comes, you don't do anything.