Depression has been compared to having a brick lodged between your rib cage; a heavy feeling that makes thinking, moving, and living your normal life an enormous effort. It’s common that people don’t know exactly why they are feeling the way they do, though their experience of the symptoms is very real. Depression is usually not caused by one thing but rather a combination of different factors. Everyone experiences depression differently and it’s not always that obvious, so we have listed some helpful resources below: