Hello, I’ve been depressed now for almost 3 years and throughout this whole time whenever someone (therapists, friends etc.) have asked me how depression feels to me I’ve never really been able to describe it properly. I have this physical feeling in my chest/lung area that feels like pressure inside a vacuum, kinda as if your lungs are empty and you want to breath but have your mouth and nose closed so that there’s no air going in. Another way to describe it is how I’d imagine a little black hole inside of me that just pulls everything to it.
I’ve talked about that feeling with other depressed people which could relate to it so well that it was scary. I tried to look it up but I’ve not found any scientific information about it.

Now I was wondering if anyone has the same physical sensation, knows a way to describe it better or might even have any more information about it.