Are you depressed?
It seems too direct to ask this, but it's best we pin point a feeling and send it off, it serves as an anchor for the person to know if yes, he's truly in that state.

Well, it's okay to feel that way, but I bid you not to linger in it too long. For it has dark tendrils, tendrils filled with lost hopes and anguish. If you're too lenient on not rising and shaking it off, it'll crawl around you, sucking out the little light you thought you had, injecting its venomous poison, filling your mind with only one...