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 for me feels like someone chasing me, no matter what I do or how hard I try to out run it, there comes a time when it grabs me.
If my depression were a person, I would punch it in the face and give it a hug. In that order.
If my depression were a person I would sit it down and explain that it mattered.
If my depression was a person I would give it energy drinks mixed with coffee so it would stop making me feel so tired and sucky.
or maybe just leave it stranded and run like hell
My depression is just like one of those people that happens to call or text or knock on your door the very second you've gotten started on something you enjoy. They need your attention right there at that very second, and it sucks any good feeling you'd had before and only reminds you about being depressed or how the thing you were about to start wasn't actually that important after all.
If my depression were a person, I'd sit them down in a nice café, give them a cup of black coffee, and say "Stop hating yourself dammit"
@blargy238 if my depression were a person, id surround sit down with them on my bed and just stare at them in a comfortable silence. Because id know theyd breakdown and cry in the toilet, id lock my room door and just hug them forever. Id tell them its okay to feel this way and nothings wrong with them and theyd never be alone. Id also surround them around cute children as they dream of being a mother.
@blargy238 if my depression were a person Id give them chocolate and a hug and tell them it was okay to cry because theyre still so strong and so loved and they always will be
If my depression were a person I guess:
It's name would be GhanDool.
It's looks: It will be sticky and stenchy, with a pleasing fake evil smile on it's face, determined and relentless, the one that you can't get rid off...allways touching your mind and your body, always shoving itself under your skin as an imposed unwanted friend...
It's hobbyies are: feeding on energy, both mental amd physical. Putting people down every time they think of smth good depression comes with arguments to destroy that and thing about 5 things bad. Putting brakes on initiative. Every time somebody has an initiative and urge to do smth constructive it comes with arguments that it is not worth it, you are not able, everything will end up in failure, it will be gutile and in vain...also it likes to feed on dreams and peace of mind. It steals dreams and gives back nightmares, eats your peace of mind and it gives you insomnia, anxiety, fear, anguish and desolation and despair because it is generous with its gifts. It hasmany other hobbies too...it's best one is to outlive you...
If my depression was a person, it'd be that one friend that sits alone into a dark room listening to soft music, like Sad from InsideOut crawling on the floor, slowly dying.
If my depression was a person, I would alienate myself from it, the way I do everyone else in my life
@SpursFan72 I relate
