Q: What DID you feel?
A: I remember thinking one day....shouldn't I be enjoying this more? I was hanging out with friends and everyone was laughing and having a great time, but I caught myself laughing because that's what everyone else was doing. But I wasn't finding anything funny. Now I know this happens to people, but then I started to recognize other symptoms. I was numb to everything. I found it hard to bring myself out of bed, I wasn't hungry I couldn't bring myself to enjoy things I normally did. At first I had no clue what was going on, I felt confused. I thought maybe it's just me going through a phase, but the feelings never left. It honestly felt like I was sinking in a pit of sand that was , but I couldn't get myself out, and I didn't want to. People say, "Well just change how you think about things, let the little things go," or my favorite, "It's not that bad. Think about how much pain other people are in." Well, when your that depressed you can't. You can't see other people's pain because yours is so great. People who don't suffer from depression need to understand that you have to measure your own pain with your own measuring stick. Everyone is different.