depressing experience

It was often a depressing experience.

Cao said the past two months under lockdown was a depressing experience.

And it went from being a slightly depressing experience thinking about what we couldn’t do in terms of last year’s festival to a kind of exhilarating experience of, “Oh, my God, we’re really going to try this.”

The episode also is a one-off; Comedy Central hasn't announced a premiere date for the 24th season, and in the final moments of the special Stan Marsh's father Randy announces to his wife Sharon that the entire depressing experience has made him consider only making "specials" from now on.

Walking into a bookstore as an author can be a mildly depressing experience because even small bookshops hold more volumes than anybody can possibly read.