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Personify Your Depression: If my depression were a person... [fill in the blank]

wontwakewontsleep September 27th, 2017

Personify Your Depression: I learned about this coping technique today. Imagine that your depression is a person separate from you. The idea is that personifying our depression helps remind us that depression doesn't define who we are ourselves, and that invasive self-critical thoughts we experience often come from our depression and not our healthy minds. Some things to think about are: what kind of person would it be, what kind of hobbies would it have, what would it look like, what would its name be?

So, if your depression were a person, what kind of person would it be?

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EveryOtherMonday May 16th, 2018

If my depression were a person, I would finally, FINALLY tell it to f*ck off, and then take its beating heart and crush it to a thousand pieces with a sludgehammer. And then, I would go home and take the longest amount of sleep I have ever gotten.

amarifey June 6th, 2018

My Depression is a person; its me; I've fought with it it my whole life but it has finally won. It has absorbed me. It is dark, moldy, heavy. It clouds my thoughts. It stays in bed. It overeats and never brushes its teeth. I am only slightly aware of the difference between us. I have lost sucessive battles...and now I lay in its dirth, in its fugue, not even caring enough to be sad or angry...I don't remember any other way.

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Katiebabe June 10th, 2018

@amarifey life

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El12 June 6th, 2018

Just a cold, black, damp gooey sploge that eats away at thoughts of how to feel better, living inside a shell which is forced to be kept alive, me

HoneyKittens June 7th, 2018

I've always felt that my depression was this demon riding on my back, but it's made of this black sludge and it whispers things to me. Sometimes I'm strong enough to ignore it, but no matter what it's always on my back.

AerialJackfruit June 7th, 2018

Mines more like a thick fog and deep dark water. Keeping me isolated and sinking. So cold it numbs everything and all I can think is, "how the hell am I supposed to survive this?"

AThingCalledPax June 7th, 2018

It would be like one of those people who are really clingy. It would stay by my side 24/7 making sure I don

Katiebabe June 10th, 2018

If my depression were a person it would take my life from me and my joy it would suck dry all my emotions and control me- but it doesn

redPlace9156 June 10th, 2018

If depression were a person, it would look like Atlas holding the weight of the world on his shoulders. If depression were a person it would like person always holding on tight to someone and never letting go - almost as if they were an actual parasite.

placidSquare9564 June 10th, 2018

If my depression were a person, it would be on trial for murder, because it killed all hopes inside of me.

Surmoi June 10th, 2018

It would be Dean from Supernatural. So devoted, aggressive, self-blaming, feels isolated even though he has a brother and still believes it is only himself that can go down the hard road and has to make sacrifices. But still cool tho...