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?
depression would probably do everything to get out of this world. because the media tells he
If my depression were a person, they'd be the friend always pushing you down to bring themselves up.
I feel joyful, maybe even motivated. Suddenly, Depression comes in and says it's not worth it.
They say what I do is worthless, that everything I do is as awful as the person doing them.
They'd laugh in my face when I'd fall, then proceed to stomp on my back.
I try to stay away, but they find their way back.
They always seem to.
Well then Depression must be eating right, doing daily power yoga, and doing a hardcore, strenuous training regimen, because it's always getting stronger and there'd be no other way to explain those wicked gains. Needless to say it's complete overkill, if its only goal is to be able to overpower me.
If my depression were a person... it would be me, but all the worst parts of me. It would be insecure, lonely, self-conscious, unmotivated, afraid, pessimistic. It - or she - would be at my side all the time, getting in my way when I've been too happy for too long. My depression wants me to die.My depression wants me to be alone. My depresseion wants me to remain in misery with her.
If my depression was a person, it would be a family member I have to live with who claims they have my best interests at heart, but only speaks to me in order to insult me and my decisions under the guise of "bringing things to my attention."
If my depression were person it would be: Strangely though I'm female my depression is male and would sit there and not talk to anyone, be on the edge of anger with no one knowing what small thing would set him off. He would be controlling, want attention all the time and would stalk me constantly.
If depression were a person, I would punch it in the face. And demand to know how dare it try to ruin my life. (:
If my depression were a person, it'd be a stalker. It always follows me around, even when I'm doing something I enjoy. It scares me, and I don't know how to combat it. I cannot go to the police to get rid of this particular stalker.