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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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toughLion8324 August 17th, 2020

if my depression were a person it would be a monster like person always hitting me and making wounds and then rehitting on those wounds constantly.

i wish one day i would be strong and confident enough to stop its stick with which it hits perpetually.

grayskiesandpies August 18th, 2020

If my depression were a person, she'd be...

A teen girl, maybe around seventeen. She always knows exactly what to say to destroy me & my self-esteem. She whispers all the time "it's your fault. everything that's wrong in your life is your fault."

So that's fun?

Not really. Obviously.

dworth257 August 18th, 2020

if my depression were a person, it would be somebody i sincerely cared about turning into a monster.

DinaElwy September 4th, 2020

My depression is the person who admit my abilities but still telling me how unlucky I am, how many opportunities has left me, and how many people don't love me.

Hacucha September 5th, 2020

If my depression be a person , it will be a shadow of me with a broken smile and crying

VirgilAndOthers September 19th, 2020

@wontwakewontsleep

depression is kind of a part of me

depression is my own mind ; it has two metaphotical halfs and one always yelling at the other

I am in a cage and a brown rust coloured liquid as dense as mercury is filling my heart and lungs whilst the other side of my mind tells me I am worthless and changes who I am as a person

energeticCar8545 September 30th, 2020

If my depression were a person I would want to slap it really hard in the face. It stops me from doing as well as I could or really succeeding in life. I feel like I float by barely noticing all the different things in life while others are thriving. I barely survive. I'm sick of it.

potatoA777 October 2nd, 2020

Um... probably like just a person, with a blank expression. They suck all the life and joy out of everything, make getting up feel like a chore, make it so there's not really any feeling but.... blankness? They do whsiper, saying how stupid and worthless I am, but mostly they just block everything out. Kind of like blocking my view of the world and forcing me to see things through glass.

MidlifeCrisis5 October 2nd, 2020

If my depression were a person, (s)he would be a newscaster, interrupting my fantasy movie where I'm a good and worthwhile person and reminding me of the reality of my failure and worthlesness .

caringLime October 3rd, 2020

If my depression were a person, I would cancel them out of my life and quit the contact with them.