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Depression:DeathByAsphyxiation

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Something they don't tell you about night-time is that darkness has substance. It's denser than air and therefore settles to the ground much like dust. A depressed person is forever aware of the darkness, real or perceived, and can fearfully watch it clouding around them with no ability to stop it. It rolls towards them like waves crashing down, or creeps silently upon them similar to a thick fog billowing relentlessly across the land from afar. When you're depressed, everything is black. Even the light hurts your eyes and seems to have such clinical starkness to it that it slowly fades to black (real or perceived). Life becomes like a dirty, slimy puddle of putrid ink the colour of coal; it feels as though things are being pelted down on you from the sky and that you yourself will shatter like glass or disintegrate into a pile of sand imminently and irreversibly. Most of all, depression is that previously-mentioned, forever present darkness, harrowingly horrific, nightmareish. The darkness that hovers unmistakeably around a depressive, filling the air that they breathe and ultimately leading to slow, lingering suffocation.
Stupid title bar doesn't have enough room. Grr. An insight into the darkness of depression.
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darkened-dreams's avatar
i love it!! i may need to show my friends to help them understand me....well done :D