In this post, we will explore some of the best depression captions for Instagram that can help you express yourself and raise awareness about mental health.
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Best Depression Captions for Instagram
- Depression occurs when one looks back with no pride, and looks forward with no hope.
- The only thing standing between me and total happiness is a reality.
- Depression is the inability to construct a future.
- Nowadays, forever ends when you find someone better.
- Fake companions resemble shadows they tail you in the sun yet abandon you out of the loop.
- No one cares. They’re just pretending.
- Every ‘I am okay’ actually means ‘I am totally broken.
- Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen.
- Does the entire spark that had been driving us crazy faded away?
- I get lost inside my mind.
- Now watching another dream feels like inviting another pain.
- If only memories can be wiped as easily as tears.
- I failed the war, and now depression is leading me to my death.
- The only way I stop from breaking is by hiding.
- A lot of people don’t realize that depression is an illness. I don’t wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
- The saddest thing is when you’re on the verge of breaking down, and you try to look for a shoulder to cry on, but there’s none.
- Sometimes, I’m really afraid to open up to my friends about my anxiety and sadness because they’ll think I’m just looking for attention.
- You enjoy music when you’re happy. You understand the lyrics when you’re sad.
- I feel like such a mistake. Here is to depressing love.
- Life is not about gaining happiness it is about creating it.
- You never want people to see you cry because you want to be strong. But you hate how nobody seems to notice that you’re completely broken and torn apart inside.
- The ugly truth is no one is really happy in their life.
- I don’t want anything but your trust.
- No measure of rest on the planet could cure the tiredness I feel.
- In silence, no one answers.
- When you’re depressed, sleep isn’t just slept; it’s an escape.
- I honestly don’t like getting close to people. In my mind, they were just going to walk out of my life anyway no matter how close we were.
- If they are interested, they still will.
- How much more can I take?
- I trust you’ll much you’re harming me sometime in the not-so-distant future.
- You know its love, even when a person does, your feelings do not disappear.
- Loneliness turned his heart into a monster.
- I can’t sleep at night. I can’t wake up in the morning either.
- I will never stop caring, but now you decide to push me away, so I will not stay.
- Nothing is more depressing than having everything and still feeling really sad.
- Even a million tears won’t bring anything back.
- I don’t have a mentality issue. You have a problem with my state of mind, and that is not my issue.
- What are you expected to do when disintegrates around you.
- Each break is an opportunity to get it right the next time.
- Sure, closing your eyes will shut away the things that you don’t want to see. But, closing your heart doesn’t mean you won’t feel anything anymore.
- I was your cure and you were my disease. I was saving you; and you were killing me.
- Poverty isn’t a lack of money, but rather a feeling of loneliness and being unloved.
- You’re scared to tell people how much it hurts, so you keep it all to yourself.
- I really wish that I could go back to a time when I would smile, and it didn’t take every fiber of my being to do it.
- It’s truly pitiful how one day I’ll lose everything so quick.
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Encouraging Instagram Captions for Depression
- I excuse a great deal. However, I always remember what’s said and done.
- If I die today, I will host a funeral with a smile.
- Discouragement is the imperceptible disease.
- Depression is unfocused self-pity.
- Feeling sad, but I still try to smile. That’s my life.
- You simply broke my trust in true love.
- If you feel depressed you shouldn’t go out on the street because it will show on your face and you’ll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
- I need the pain to know I still exist.
- I hate that I’m still hoping.
- Sometimes, you just need one person to tell you that you aren’t as bad as you think you are.
- I just want someone who can put the same effort I put in.
- I said I’m fine. But, am I really?
- I always wish for the same thing, it is for me.
- What hurts more, Breakup or Betrayal? Replacement,” a heart cried.
- No amount of sleep in the world could cure the tiredness I feel.
- Depression is a battle between a body that fights with all its might to survive and a mind that wants to die.
- So many girls fall in love with the wrong guys, simply because the wrong guys say the right things.
- Silence is the strongest scream.
- Can an apology reciprocate the pain that deprived a soul of happiness?
- Everyone has a story but my story left me.
- It’s better to be alone rather than in a wrong relationship.
- It’s like being in a glass elevator in the middle of a crowded mall; you see everything and would love to join in, but the door won’t open so you can’t.
- Two broken hearts could together make a complete heart.
- Life seems without you.
- I wish I could puke out all the pain
- I didn’t much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It’s very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
- I’m busy saving everybody else when I can’t even save myself.
- I feel like I’m waiting for something that is never going to happen.
- Tears are words that need to be written.
- Dear Past, stop tapping me on the shoulders, I don’t want to look back.
- Depression is a lot like a bruise in your mind that never truly goes away.
- You can be happy in life only when you are sad sometimes.
- I just don’t want to hurt anymore. Is that so much to ask?
- My mask no longer works. I still try, but they know. They know I am dead inside.
- When I feel anxious, it’s because I’m living in the future. When I feel depressed, it’s because I’m still living in the past.
- The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
- Every smile has a mystery behind.
- The sad truth is that the opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
- It’s getting harder to hide the pain.
- Depression is melancholy minus its charms.
- Being alone with your feelings is the worst because you have nowhere to run.
- Expect less. Because you are not getting more anyway.
- Smiling has always been easier than explaining why you’re sad.
- Whenever I feel that things are going the right direction, they take a U-turn.
- Depression is like being in a totally round room and looking for a corner to sit in.
- It’s hard to understand that being us in the past now.
- It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.
- I honestly don’t know what I want in life. I don’t even know what I want right now. All I know is that it hurts so much inside, and it’s eating me alive. One day, there won’t be anything left of me.
- Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.
- I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
- I need a break from the loneliness that is totally consuming me.
- If you left me without reason. No apology
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Uplifting Instagram Captions for Depression
- The only thing standing between me and total happiness is reality.
- Unhappiness is not caused by the situation itself, but your thoughts about the situation.
- Life is an art of drawing without eraser.
- One broken relationship makes you question every relationship.
- People are lonely, they build walls instead of bridges.
- He proved that promises are made to be broken.
- Nowadays, forever is a short span of time, which ends when they find someone better.
- Out of emotions, filled with emptiness.
- There were still the periods of darkness, the spasms of panic; but now he knew they were not real, and because he knew this he overcame them.
- Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
- There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
- I don’t need a specific reason to be sad. This is my life.
- Deep inside where nothing’s fine, I’ve lost my mind.
- Wretchedness never arrives alone. It brings its companions despair, self-damage, and suicide.
- Our eyes can speak. It is almost always futile to try and hide our feelings.
- Some people seem to get all the sunshine. And some, all the shade.
- My heart is pounding everywhere, when you get close they can get hurt.
- I don’t think anybody’s continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
- Just because I let you don’t mean I wanted to.
- Past is something that you can’t let go.
- Someone who overthinks is someone who overloves.
- Darkness is simply the absence of life and depression is the absence of happiness.
- Telling a depressed person to be happy is the same as telling a cancer patient to cure themselves.
- I would lose myself in my head.
- I am laughing and smiling but on the inside, I am dying.
- Don’t think for a second that my bad days are a sign of weakness. Those are the days that I’m actually fighting the hardest.
- I wish I had no feelings
- Sometimes, you just don’t know the true weight of what you’re carrying until the day you feel its release.
- And when I lit my tears on those streets, you were the one who was shaken.
- Better believe it she’s grinning yet don’t let that nitwit you. Investigate her eyes. She’s breaking inside.
- At some point you have to realize, he can stay in your heart but not in your life.
- Different faces, different experiences, inculcate different monsters in you.
- In my mind, depression is comparing your current reality to a fantasy about how you think your life should really be.
- My life is a constant battle between wanting to be left alone, but not wanting to feel lonely.
- Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
- Depression is a sinister thing. You’re both the prisoner and the cruel jailer.
- Why can’t I be happy for them?
- You never acknowledge how solid you are. Until being solid is the main decision you have.
- People ask me what depression is like. I tell them it’s a lot like walking down a dark hallway, never really knowing when the light turn go on.
- I’ve finally realized that I just have to accept things the way they are. Life gets much easier when you do this.
- Instead of wiping your tears, wipe away the people who create them.
- Every person has their own secret sorrows that they hide from the world. Oftentimes, we call people cold when they’re just sad.
- I loved and I loved and I lost you.
- I wish I could undo all the things that broke us.
- In life, you can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.
- The wisest people are the ones who have experienced the worse.
- Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
- What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
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Positive Instagram Captions for Depression
- I hate getting flashbacks from things that I don’t want to remember.
- They’re here dancing in your mind and all you can do is handle.
- It’s not always the tears that measure the pain. Sometimes it’s the smile we fake.
- Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.
- Depression is that feeling when you’re not really sad – you just feel empty inside.
- Even when I was left all alone, I didn’t give up.
- It’s depressing when you’re still around and your albums are out of print.
- ❤ Taken for granted.
- People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long.
- Just to avoid getting hurt, he started living alone.
- Tears are words that the heart can’t say.
- People with depression have something very valuable to teach us… how to live when it doesn’t ever feel good.
- I can no longer tell when I am awake or in a nightmare.
- I can’t stop loving you even after eternity.
- There were days when she burnt her own heart for the sake of her loved ones and then a day arrived when her heart was nothing but just a pile of ashes.
- Our wounds and sorrows can only be healed when we touch them with kindness and compassion.
- I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
- Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
- Help me before my heart gets too cold.
- Sometimes it is better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you
- He cried every night and woke up like nothing bad ever happened.
- Remember this: You weren’t put here to be depressed. To feel guilty, ashamed, unworthy, or condemned. You were put here to be victorious.
- In the darkest nights, even I’m scared of my demons.
- I don’t need a particular reason to be sad. It’s just how my life is.
- Expect more from yourself and less from others
- A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you’re in a room full of a million people.
- If my absence does not affect your life, then my presence has no meaning.
- I never stopped loving you, just stopped showing it.
- It’s better to break up when the sweet love turns into poison.
- Why does it always rain on me?
- You loved so much even if you don’t see it.
- There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
- Even though you were standing beside me, you were never there for me.
- Full of nothingness, of emptiness.
- Depression is melancholy minus its charms, the animation, the fits.
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Sad Instagram Captions for Depression
- Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.
- Depression makes you feel like you want to just disappear from the world, but in reality, all you truly want is to be found.
- The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
- Try not to give minimal idiotic things a chance to break your bliss.
- Oh God! I don’t seek happiness in my life, it’s a little less painful.
- Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.
- Yours ‘ALWAYS’ was a lie.
- At that point, I begin to believe that suicide is the main way out.
- We are separated by distances, not by hearts.
- Depression is an overwhelming feeling of numbness, and the endless desire for something – anything – to take you from one day to the next.
- With eating well, there’s a perception that it’s depressing. People think they’re just going to meditate and eat kale.
- It’s funny how the person who hurts you is the one who swore they never would.
- Now and then you feel pitiful with no reason, and you can’t help it. What’s more, you can’t manage it.
- When words can’t express the pain you’re feeling, you cry. That’s the heart’s way of expressing the pain.
- Sadness is like an ocean. Frequently, we drown. But sometimes, we are forced to swim.
- I loathe getting flashbacks from things I would prefer not to recollect.
- Monsters don’t sleep under your bed, they scream inside of your head.
- The free-from aisle is the most depressing place in the supermarket.
- I’ve been sad for years. Don’t tell me it gets better.
- The very worst kind of sadness is the kind that doesn’t have an explanation.
- Never ending talks ended with just one confrontation.
- If I die today, host my funeral with smiles
- Hiding a thousand feelings behind the happiest smile.
- Everytime people ask me if I’m okay, it’s just a reminder that I’m not.
- I act like it isn’t a big deal when really, I am breaking my heart.