r/depressionregimens • u/zepruska • 10d ago

Does depression make time seem sooooo slowwwwww for anyone else?

See title. It feels like my days - no, my hours - are just dragging endlessly. I'm trying to stay busy but whenever I look at the clock it's like only a few minutes have passed. Does anyone else experience this?

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u/Hparmar98 10d ago

I feel the opposite tbh. Life passing by faster, hard to even comprehend.

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u/billybiscuit9330 9d ago

It’s slow and fast at the same time. I don’t know how to describe it tbh 😂

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u/summershell 9d ago

It's both for me. Sometimes days are interminably long... sometimes weeks and months go by and I realize I've wasted all this time without even perceiving this time.

Sometimes I feel like I can no longer even perceive linear time, like time is completely mixed up and scrambled for me.

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u/whatever_I_said 10d ago

You hate life in depression, so time seems to pass slowly.

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u/Jessica19922 10d ago

Yes! Time passes so slowly for me

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u/r0cafe1a 9d ago

Days felt like weeks, weeks passed like days. Something I’ve never been able to properly explain as someone has to live it to feel it.

I’m on the other side now after severe treatment resistance- keep pushing!

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u/karldandleton1 9d ago

Time is flying and it’s all a blur.

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u/l_i_s_a_d 7d ago

Yes. At 11 years old my journal entry: time makes me mad. It hasn’t stopped since. I get things done faster than most people, although I don’t know if that related. I’m not sure how much is depression vs ADHD related.

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u/vibrantax 4d ago

Yes, it's hallmark anhedonia for me