Last week I was asked "how do you feel when you feel depressed?"

...well what a stupid question? I feel depressed, that's how I feel!

Or maybe it isn't such a stupid question...

Maybe it was the questioner's inability to use the English language that was a tad stupid?

Anyway in a more rational moment I started thinking about how I felt... I don't mean the symptomatic sort of feelings... the shaking, the anxiety, the sweating, etc. but the all encompassing feeling...

Depression is debilitating... so how would I describe that feeling of debilitation for me?

Hmmmmm....

And then I started thinking laterally... in images... and this is how I feel when depression strikes...

I'm bound in chains... they're not always in focus... they're often distorted... but the chains are there nevertheless... and they weigh me down... drag me down... and I'm no Houdini... I can't just throw them off... they smother me... and I can't escape them...

So that's it... Depression... to me depression is living a life in chains...

Now I know what to say next time...

Floating around Blogland in the wee small hours... no-one to play with...

Bloody knackered... so why aren't I asleep?

Ho hum...