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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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Vithlanirv January 10th, 2020

It is like a devil that stays with you.

driftingship January 11th, 2020

That would be easy, then I could kick its ass...

CelestialPheonix January 12th, 2020

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.

RationalWest January 12th, 2020

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.

redSailboat4326 January 13th, 2020

If my depression were a person, I'd call it society.

dworth257 January 13th, 2020

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

95969 January 14th, 2020

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.

dworth257 January 14th, 2020

somebody following me around at all times to ridicule me

lavenderBranch1489 January 14th, 2020

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.

cliffhangers January 14th, 2020

My friend...