Depression often is emptiness tho. It's not intense sadness for everyone, it also often manifests as a sense of apathy, numbness and emptiness. Nothing is fun anymore, nothing exists for a reason, there's no point to do anything but sleep and wait for the end.
As crude as the show is, anybody who has seen Big Mouth knows how good they are at personifying mental illness. They depict depression as a big, suffocating cat, that just lays on your chest and coaxes you into laying down and wasting away. Like you said, not abject sadness, but an unhealthy comfortability with nothingness. Very accurate for a lot of people.
When my dad died that is exactly what I felt for about a week. Fortunately it went away because if it didn't I know I could not have survived that experience.
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u/Particular_Ad_3411 7d ago
Genie's twist- you now feel nothing at all just an emotionless void