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Purpose: This study aims to provide basic data for investigating when female nursing students experience depression to understand their experience of depression, and to explore measures to reduce depression. Method: Focus group was divided to four groups, four students each group. Interview was proceeded until data saturation. After recording interview with a recorder, the author analyzed in phenomenological methodology of Colaizzi. Result: Seven themes about female nursing students' experience of depression which cannot be easily overcome were drawn - ‘likely to go crazy due to not suited ’, ‘pressure of school record and physical pain’, ‘discouraged mood caused by practice’, ‘complaint and stress by excessive regulation’, ‘relationship between senior and junior causing hard time’, ‘misery of being neglected from peers,’ and ‘excessive attachment to outer appearance’. Conclusion: The author thinks that it is necessary to give continuous interest in not only on physical body of female nursing students but on their mental health.