When we experience depression we often describe it with phrases like: "I'm in a black mood", or "It smothers me like a heavy blanket", or "Its like being in a thick fog", or "I feel like I'm wading through treacle."
These and similar descriptions provide interesting clues about the nature of emotions like depression, anxiety or fear: Emotions have a structure, and that structure is encoded in imagery and physical sensations. Why is this important? Well, quite simply because when we uncover the structure of an emotion, we then have something tangible to which we can relate to and work with. Emotions like depression are typically very amorphous, like a swirling fog, they have no handles that we can grab hold of and work with. This is why depression is often accompanied by feelings of helplessness and despair, because we cannot even see the thing that is controlling us. We become victims of our emotions. How can you change something that has no form? (More)
Source: Psychology Today
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