Sorry I'm a jerk for not posting in so long, and then posting something with a pretty personal question when I do, but I promise I'm still here, keeping caught up as best I can with everyone.

So, you know how Winston Churchill called his depression a black dog? I have a book around here somewhere where the author calls it his noonday demon. If you have ever been depressed, what did you call it? And briefly, how did it make you feel, physically?

For me, being depressed was like being underwater.

This is for a paper I'm writing for a class -- a fiction class, which means that this doesn't need to be anything close to a scientific poll. I can use your first name, or I can make up a pseudonym if you'd like. (Please indicate which you would prefer.) All replies to this are screened. Since replying to screened replies (heh) makes them visible, I'll just thank you for any help you can give me in advance.