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?
If my depression were a person..
She'd be like Blanche Dubois from Streetcar Named Desire, fragile, soft but tries to be independent and crafts the most beautiful, fantasized lies to hide herself in, to cover her eyes from the truth and believe that one day, its gonna be ok, its not gonna hurt anymore, you'll be happy and you'll be where you want to be.
depression sounds beutiful doesnt she? but thats her trick, she shows an amazing facade, making everyone wish they were her or that depression was something to be admired like a beauty in an art museum. But shes stayed for too long, shes living in a society that doesnt recognize her, they dont recognize how she is painful and toxic and you wish it was acute or temporary but she will keep lying to you until you realize how unstable you are and how much you've affected everyone because you were too busy fantasizing about the day you'll recover when you actually cant, instead you let her grow.
@NvvG
This is so true: I can relate
This person would be a jerk. They would be a complete ass to everyone around them, continuing to tell people to shut up and insulting their peers. Almost everyone would hate being around this guy. But, let's say you got to know this person. You become close friends, sharing your problems together, and being there for one another. This person isn't the pathetic, sad, asshat he was made out to be. Yeah, he was sad, but emotionally. Not pathetic. He's a great person, and he'd always there for you when you need him. He gets coffee for you every Sunday morning, he helps you with your homework every night, and he'll do a favor for you in a heartbeat. Sometimes, he IS an asshat. But really, there's a great side to him. He puts others before himself. But it's gone too far. He's focusing on your needs so much of the time that his mental state has depleted unusually fast. But he thinks he's too self obsessed, so he continues to care for those that he loves. He falls apart because nobody knows how to help him.
I'd say for me it would be Steve from Minecraft cause he's incredibly strong, able to technically carry the mass of the sun and a black hole, break diamonds and trees with his bare fist unscathed. Just like depression cause its very hard to beat and very powerful, like Steve with his godlike capabitilies.
@The777cups
Or it could be Herobrine
If my depression were a person I'd be a 23 year old girl who's thinking why me all the time, and why couldn't life give her a break, she be exhausted of even getting up, she'd have black,cold,heart...like I do sometimes! This question is hard because everyone depression is different from one another
This could be considered triggering.
If my depression was a person she'd always be crying. Tears running down her face. She's quiet and alone either in her dark room or walking through the woods. She wears baggy clothes, her hair is dirty, and she's very skinny.
She'd be cut, watching herself bleed. Content to feel something other than the pain of her own thoughts and the thoughts she thinks others think about her.
If my depression were a person, she would be covered in cuts and scars and burns, and would tell everyone she was fine even as she was sobbing her heart out. She would be thinking of any way possible to end the eternal pain from inside, but would then feel guilty for thinking of this, as she would know that ending her life would cause her girlfriend to suffer unnecessarily.
If depression were a person she would be that negative lady who judges everything I do and say and tells me nothing is good enough and never will be. That lady you can never please no matter how hard you try. Her job is to constantly look over my shoulder and wear me down with her negative crap that never ends. She won't be happy until she completely breaks me.
If my depression were a person it would be an identical version of myself just staring at me. It would feel as if they were on my back just hanging on tightly but I wouldn't want to put them down because I've grown to it. Because I waited and we've been through a lot together, they've become my best friend and I don't want to loose them. If I do loose them, I wouldn't know what to do with myself nor would I know how to cope with losing them. I'd just be empty, hollow, trying to search for a similar or very different feeling. They'd be toxic but I'd depend on them because I would soon figure out I have absolutely nothing without them.
I think if my depression were a person, they'd be about as heavy as a large chonky cat, and just constantly sitting on my chest. Not always awake, but chipping down bit by bit. Sometimes I can chuck it off though temporarily, and I feel a lot lighter. Or friends help me build giant nets to gentle scoop the snoozing depression cat (not as loveable as normal cats) off my chest. For some reason it became a cat rather than a person haha, oops
If my depression were a person, it would be tall and strong enough to overpower me.It would whisper insults in my ear and keep me up at night.
BUT
As time passes, it would get smaller and weaker. It would slowly have less control of me, and I would regain my life.