Depression Click to subscribe to Shadowed For those are experiencing depression. Sadness is the feeling of being depleted and experiencing loss. Symptoms of Depression Prevent Depression Depressed people feel hurt because they've been hurt and because holding in feelings is hurtful.
Depressed people are angry because old hurt becomes anger.
Depressed people are anxious because they fear they will lose control of their repressed anger and hurt someone. Because they have redirected their anger inward, depressed people feel guilty and worthless. While we all suffer blows to our self-esteem from time to time, depressed people have allowed their guilt to erode the very foundations of their goodness at all and have difficulty finding any meaning in life. The Range of Depressive Feelings Depression ranges from being sullen to moody, gloomy, defeated, woeful, melancholic, suffering, afflicted, miserable, tormented, tortured, hopeless, or despondent, to feeling despairing and condemned and suicidal. A person is hurt but internalizes the hurt instead of expressing it.