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, it would be a quiet wallflower. She would be insecure, and toxic, projecting her insecurities onto me. She would be a bully. But she's a wallflower, so nobody would notice her. But she notices me, and every now and then when I seem happy, she would decide to join in. I would hate her, but since I've known her for so long, I would just deal with her.
With black robes and two faces, each covered with a drama/tragedy mask, the tragedy mask tells me all my past mistakes, and the drama masks tells me lies that are to come. He walks around, unknown what is under those robes, all I know is.
He does not make a soune when he walks.
It would look like me, be secretive, hide her pain and sorrow under a concrete mask, always trying to make me believe Im a happy person, and I always believe her.
If my depression were a person, she would be tall. Really tall. And shed have really long hair that covers her face like the girl from the ring. Shes a cartoon in my mind. She has long gangly limbs and shes in black and white. She wears her headphones in and slouches her back a lot. Hands in her pockets with no emotion at all. She doesnt do much. She just sits there. You can feel her presence all the time and a couple of times a day she randomly gets up and becomes this completely different person. This other side of my depression has orange hair. And she runs around with her arms flailing about wildly. And she doesnt stop screaming. Ever. She wears a tiara because why not. And really shiny pants. This is the doppelgänger of my depression that ruins my life. The first version bugs me and puts a fog over my entire life. But this second version destroys everything that Ive built back up since the last time Ive seen her. And it takes me weeks to recover from her couple-day long visit.
This is exactly how I feel. @tiredofit19
it would be a strange person that you know nothing about, constantly whispering in your ear your alone you have no emotions and no matter what you do it will not go away usually you can deal with it but some days you cry until you can barely breathe because you know the things it says are true. people tell you itll go away if you keep a journal, or go for a walk but you know this isnt true.
It cant be a person. It must be a Monster. It is a Dark Shadow Monster to be specific. It follows you through out your life. Keeps you locked up in the darkness. This darkness crawls inside your Soul like a slow Poison and eats up each and every cell in your body, till you experience a Slow, Painful Death. It will Never allow you to see or experience the Light, because it knows Light kills the Darkness.
If my depression were a person, they would be manipulative, they would be there all hours of the day, inviting themselves over, and appearing at the most inconvienient of times. They would have a friendly smile, a calmness, slowly pushing further and further into personal space everyday. Some days I'm able to hide from them, other times I am not.
She would be cold as ice and snow. How else could everything feel so numb?
My depression is a shape shifter. Some days its a small bug that I can feel at the back of my head but other days its an elephant that crushes me.
My depression is like a giant elephant in a porcelein cupboard. It leaves only broken pieces.
If my depression were a person, I could probably deal with it better. I can walk away from people. This follows me everywhere, a shadow,a shade.
