(单词翻译:单击)
Depression can be difficult to explain, like any mental illness it feels different for every person.
很难解释抑郁症是什么，就像是人们对精神疾病的感觉各不相同一样。
But we at Psych2Go on to bring people together to will share their experience and maybe even help others out,
但我们Psych2Go将和大家一同分享抑郁患者的经历，或许对你有帮助，
so we asked our readers and viewers, who has experienced depression and how would you explain what it feels like to others?
所以我们询问了很多读者和观众，他们都是抑郁症患者，他们会告诉你如何向别人解释抑郁症的滋味。
Here we've made a list of 16 analogies for depression
以下我们列出了抑郁症的16种类比
Disclaimers: some submissions have been edited for length and/or Clarity.
声明：由于文章篇幅和/或简洁性，我们对一些意见进行了编辑。
No.1 It's like you have weights built into your arms and legs, they're heavy and they make any basic activity feel like I'm dragging around dumbbells that are too much for me.
1. 就像是你的手脚被灌入钢铁，手脚变得沉重，任何基本动作都像是拖着超重的哑铃一般。
No.2 It's like you're screaming and pain, but there's no sound coming out of you.
2. 就像是你大声尖叫疼痛，却发不出任何声音。
No.3 My depression feels like a black hole but you're not in the black hole, you are the black hole, your mind is.
3. 我的抑郁就像是一个黑洞，你并不是在黑洞内，你就是黑洞。
It sucks in anything that might make you feel emotion, and it turns it into darkness, nothingness.
能够让你感受到情绪的一切事物都很糟糕，一切变得黑暗、虚无。
No.4 Depression feels like I'm in black and white and the rest of the world is in color.
4. 抑郁就像是我身处黑白之中，而世界的其余部分确是彩色的。
I can't be a part of it. No matter how much I might want to I don't belong.
我无法融入其中。不论我怎么努力都没有归属感。
No.5 It's like a prison without bars. You're trapped by an invisible force preventing you from being happy
5. 就像是一个无行动约束的监禁地。有一种无形的力量将你困住，让你无法开心。
No.6 It's like the waves of the ocean. Sometimes the waves recede and you see the beautiful sand with the pretty sea shells
6. 这像是海洋中的海浪。有时海浪回潮，你可以看到美丽沙滩上的海洋贝壳
Soon the tide will come and swallow all that beauty up and drag it away from you.
很快潮汐会再次来到，吞没所有的美丽，将一切从你身边卷走。
What helped me fight that feeling is knowing that the waves will recede again.
能帮助我对抗这种感觉的是告诉自己海浪还会再次退回去的。
No.7 For me, it's like a heavy mist. Sometimes it's far enough away, but at other times, it presses me down.
7. 对我而言，抑郁就像是浓密的迷雾。有时离你很远，但其他时候会让我感到压迫。
It can enter your body and lungs, brain, stomach and limbs. Everything feels sick, as if you haven't had fresh air in a while, and it's exhausting and frustrating.
它能够进入你的身体和肺部、大脑、胃以及四肢。整个人都感觉不好，就好像很久没呼吸到新鲜的空气，让人失望且精疲力竭。
No.8 To me, it's completely like the dementors from Harry Potter's, JK Rowling's representation of that struggle was on point
8. 我觉得，抑郁完全就像是《哈利波特》中的摄魂怪，JKRowling描述很恰当
No.9 The fog that lingers in the early morning sky, never completely fading, always present and blurring your vision.
9. 就像是停留在清晨天空中的迷雾，从未完全消退，总会出现模糊你的视线。
No.10 It feels like being in the middle of a large body of water without seeing shores.
10. 就好像是身处水中央，却看不见海岸。
Something tugs at your leg, and you struggle to keep your head above the surface. You gasp and struggle but it's exhausting and tiring and frightening at the same time.
有些东西会拖住你的腿，你拼命的将头部露出水面。你喘息挣扎，同时也精疲力尽、恐惧不已。
Sometimes you truly doubt if you'll ever make it out of there, if the thing tugging on your leg will ever let go.
有时你真的会怀疑你是否能够逃离水面，如果水中的东西一直拖着你绝不让你走。
No. 11 To me, it feels like being snowed in by an avalanche. You're disoriented and you don't know which way is up,
11. 对我来说，抑郁就像是由于雪崩，你被大雪困住。你分不清方向，也看不到尽头，
so you dig tirelessly in the wrong direction while being starved of oxygen. Everything around you is cold and looks the same
所以你不知疲倦地朝着错误的方向挖掘，直至缺氧。周围的一切都如此冰冷且相似。
No. 12 It's a weight on your chest holding you down.
12. 就像是胸口重千斤。
No matter what you do, it stays there, and it spreads throughout your body and everything else takes more effort than ever.
不论你怎么做，它就在那，它传遍你的身体，让其他一切都需更加费劲。
No. 13 It's like trying to run underwater. It's exhausting and annoying and it gets you nowhere.
13. 像是在水下奔跑。你拼劲全力精疲力竭却哪也去不了。
No. 14 For me, depression was an old TV that lost its signal. All colorful images turned into noisy strange black and white mess of spots,
14. 对我来说，抑郁症像是一台没有信号的旧电视。所有彩色的画面都变成了嘈杂奇怪的黑白点，
all of the good things I'd lost and all the bad things I've still got. Sounds turned into buzzing noises and my favorite things, everything I liked turned invisible
所有好事与我无缘，所有坏事从未离开。声音变成滋滋噪音，我最喜欢的一切变成隐形。
No. 15 It's like all of the Joy was sucked from my body.
15. 这就像是身体内的欢乐都被吸走了。
In my chest is nothing only emptiness, and I'm bearing the weight of the world on my shoulders.
我的胸腔内除了空虚什么都没有，全世界的重担都压在我的肩上。
Everything that I loved makes no sense anymore. The only thing I want to do is crawl into the darkest corner of my room, curl up and cry
我所爱的一切都没有了意义。我想做的唯一一件事就是爬向房间内最阴暗的角落，蜷缩哭泣
even though I'm ill crying won't help, it is just feeling nothing at all.
哪怕我已厌倦了哭泣，还是毫无感觉。
No. 16 The feeling of being chained around your neck, connected to all of your fears and getting tugged around ruthlessly until you choke.
16. 这像是脖子周围全被锁着一样，和恐惧相连接，无情的拉住锁链，直到你窒息。
And that's our list. Maybe you can use one of these to explain your problems to the people in your surroundings who have trouble understanding what you're going through
以上。或许你可以运用以上之一向周围那些无法理解的人解释你的遭遇
If you've experienced depression and have your own analogy, then feel free to share in the comments below.
如果你经历过抑郁并有自己的解释方法，请在下方与我们分享。
