WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO HAVE CLINICAL DEPRESSION?

This is a very hard question to answer. It is too complex to describe...just as it is hard to understand. People with depression describe a wide range of experiences. 

Sometimes we as individuals have a hard time understanding what depression is when we are experiencing it and because its difficult for us to understand it becomes even harder to explain to others why we feel the way we do and why we just can't "snap out of it".

As one depressed person put it:

“If you want to know what depression feels like, I can only say that it feels like dying...I am constantly having to battle with a lack of energy and enthusiasm, awful periods of self- doubt and bouts of irritability which are foreign to my make-up.”

If you are seriously depressed you will know that it is difficult to communicate how bleak, how painful and how disabling your depression is to someone who hasn't experienced the problem personally. 

If you're depressed, you'll know exactly what it feels like, but putting it into words is rarely easy. If you're the friend, relation or colleague of a depressed person, it can be very hard to understand exactly what's happening. 

To sum it up in one word, Depression is Hell.