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Personify Your Depression: If my depression were a person... [fill in the blank]
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?
I dont know youre situation, but Ive feel betrayed by the lies of someone I care about. For years I blamed myself, Im not smart enough, cute enough, blah, blah, blah. Those feelings still creep in, but mostly I think this other person I hurt and a mess and the actions have little to do with me, @TartRipeApples
@TartRipeApples this is so clear now. thanks for illuminating this for me.
i want to be wrong so bad why is this happening the less privacy i have the worse the anger
My depression is the warped faces of the people I once loved dearly slowly fading from my sight.
If my depression was a person, it would be the friend I never had. A comfort, a melancholic happiness. The toxic friendship would never mean so much to me. It would always be there at the end of my day and at the beginning, nveloping me, always, in its breadth. Sure, many of the times it can be quite retentive and possessive, but even if spending entire weeks and months with, it never seems to get old. After all, it's like the friend I never had: the worst, most toxic friend that I never need.
I'd call her Cancer.
How are you, Ms. Cancer, today?
Aww, fine, just about to have an awesome lunch!
Bon appetit, I'd reply, wanting she choked.
@homoinsapiens - I love this. Every time you have a depressive thought, it's okay to think something like, "Be quiet, Cancer!" and go on with your day. Thanks for sharing this!
if my depression was a person thy would be a dark shadow that follows me everywhere they wold shapeshift into friends or family and quote things they said to me that hurt my feelings and they would make me believe them. Everytime I would look in the mirror I would just see a worthless being with a shadow telling me how useless I am.
If my depression were a person, it would be the only person that I know would never leave me. As horrible as that sounds, nothing in my life lasted very long. Nothing good at least. But my depression was always there, ever since I remember. It's terrible, but it's all I have.
If my depression were a person, they would be chained to me and every time I try to raise myself up they just punch me back down and place doubts in my mind again.
If my depression was a person it would look like my 5 year old self. That's when it all started or the first time I remember.
it feels like a giant shroud around me at all times trying to leak into the crevices of my brain. the shroud contains the critical eyes and ears of the whole world
They would be a serial killer. They would hunt down and kill anyone I love , anything I love and get away with it to kill again.
A girl on my shoulder reminding that nothing I do will be good enough and I will never be as perfect as those around me.
If depression were a person it would be someone who incessantly talked very loudly non stop. Their words would be swirling around in my head never letting me have a thought of my own, causing me not only to feel depressed but anxious as well.
if my depression was a person, it would be an obsessive, paranoid killer that showed no emotion. killing every good thing i love whether it be a hobby, relationship, or anything related.
He'd be a combination of Hearth, Despair and Sorrow. Possibly Evil but he tends to be too lazy to count. He'd be constantly afraid, cold and unfeeling and spend a lot of time crying.
It would be a person that is always slowing me down, holding my hand and endlessly whispers the same things into my ear, until I fall apart.
Depression is a person piggybacking as I go about my daily tasks. Hes not too tall, not too large, but still a little heavy if Im honest. I dont like to complain. Hes charismatic, if not particularly striking, but its difficult to pinpoint his charm. He keeps me company though; whispers as we walk and comments on my day:
Oh wow, they look so happy!
Oh yeah, its nice that he has friends.
Im so glad they had fun. They wouldnt have enjoyed it as much if youd been there.
Youre looking so healthy! Pity I cant see your hipbones though...
By the end of the day Im really battling to walk. Hes not any heavier, Ive just been carrying him a long way. He seldom climbs off, and I never ask him to. Ive grown pretty used to him in a way. Hes almost like a friend.
I imagine it as some kind of a red dragon sitting on my shoulders, not letting me breath properly
My depressipn as a person would be me. Constantly in my ear telling me my faults. My insecurities. My greatest regrets. The times I felt inadequate. Telling myself to just give up. Constant insults and attempts to put me down when I feel even the closest thing to happiness. That's probably what my depression would be as a person
@Aprilrenee Very well written. I can relate.
@Innocentkitten its nice to not feel alone in this