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?
A dementor
My depression is like a thundercloud, blocking out hope, joy and the things and people that I love.
I'd punch it in the throat
If my depression is a person, she'd be very sensitive to negative words and deaf towards kind ones. She'd be so secretive about her emotions. Nothing and no one is able to lift her up besides me. She'd be there staring into the floor, wall, mirror, anything. She'd be so quiet but I can hear her screaming endlessly in my head. If only she remember that I love her when she was in that state of mind, she'd be stronger than this.
It's been awhile since she acted this way. Haha. Come on now let's get over it already, princess. 🌹💛 From Princess Miera to Princess Sad Face. 🤠Haha.
Mine would be a person whos always by my side and every now and then she would tell me that i cant do that, that Im not good at anything and that Im a big disappointment
If my depression were a person...
it would be a butterfly. It began as simple anxiety that almost feels like it always been there. I never really bothered to know why I was so stressed and thought that everybody felt like that (which I still believe), but then it grew and grew until it shifted into a cocoon and then something in my life made it break and it became the butterfly that it is today : depression. Sometimes it just land and stop moving but other times it just wont stop fluttering its wings in my head.
Is it weird that all I can think about is myself? Like, if I can personify it, it would just be me. Ive been battling with severe depression for over 12 years now. It hasnt gotten any better, probably worse if anything.
My depression would be a pothead guy. He would try to succeed to overtake me and fail becaue he loses motivation for the sake of wanting to rest.
My depression would be an abusive friend, always kicking me down and telling me Im worthless.
Great question btw
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Oops I replied to that one@BiScarlet16
If my depression were a person it would be a clingy girlfriend you can't seem to get rid of. Every time I feel slightly bettter, the dark cloud of melancholy takes me over again, nagging me, distracting me from anything it can.
If my depression were a person it would be a physcopath. It would have no feelings and it wouldn't care if it brought other's down. It would think that life would just be it's game and i'm just a object for their experiment. It would carve out my ability to be happy and crush it in front of me and then laugh about it and torment me some more with constant thoughts about how I would be better off dead and then it would force me to smile in front of others and pretend everythings fine. I would name it Anathema because nobody want's it around because all it does is ruin. It takes from people and gets joy in return.
So Anathema if you wouldn't mind you could find a new home. Like in a grave? 