Being depressed is not like being unhappy, it's like being dead. It's not sadness, or fear, or grief or any other normal human emotion. Grief and sadness are me

Being depressed is not like being unhappy, it's like being dead. It's not sadness, or fear, or grief or any other normal human emotion. Grief and sadness are mental manifestations, and they have character and facets which may be approached and reasoned with. But depression is physical. It is the void, infinite and eternal, pounding incessantly from every single cell of your body. Terror and hopelessness, real emotions for sure, are just a side-effects of this physical sensation. There is no reasoning with depression, because it is entirely physical, and it often robs you of any faculties which you might otherwise muster to defeat it. The author is quite correct - it is deadly.