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?
It is like a devil that stays with you.
That would be easy, then I could kick its ass...
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.
If my depression were a person, I'd call it society.
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.
somebody following me around at all times to ridicule me
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.
My friend...