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'd be "Rick Sanchez". A smart, nihilistic, self-destructive mess that I can't help but love.
Don't get me wrong, I don't like being depressed, but I also don't want to not be depressed. The worse I feel, the better I percieve the universe. At least, in my eyes. The more I feel like curling up under a desk and crying, the more I think about how small we humans are, about how nothing matters.
It's brutal, yet something I don't want to live without.
@wontwakewontsleep
@OminousFawn Okay first message was a mistake.
My depression is not really like a person. It's more like a figure. It's black, dark, slimey and wraps itself around me till I'm suffocating. It likes whispering to me that I need to try harder to become perfect, but at the same time it tells me that I will never be good enough. Every time I make a mistake, it tells me "I told you so, you can't do anything." It makes me feel numb and it tells me to never show my negative emotions to others. Some days Deppression takes a little break and everything feels better, like it was never there. But then something small happens and it all comes crashing down. It likes to play tricks as well, like some days I'm not sure if something really happened or if I just dreamed it or imagined it..
@OminousFawn true
If my depression were a person, it would be a Dementor.
That sucks all the happiness and positivity from my surroundings when he is around, and reminds me of all the worst moments of my life, my past, my flaws and all things sad, making me slowly sink into pits of darkness and despair and lose myself.
P. S. : The idea of Dementors in Harry Potter was inspired by J.K Rowling's own depression.
@Wildflower257
This is a really great metaphor and I really relate to it. It's good to know that others also feel like this
@SolangeloLife
Thanks and yes, it's J.K Rowling's metaphor, and I think it comes as close as is possible, to what depression really is and does to people.
if my depression was a person it would be a little girl with claws. Only saying what she sees, forcing me to carry her heavy weight, and a little evil.
if my depresion were a person it would be an old friend who welcomes me with open arms that is toxic but for some reason always seems to make me smile.
my depression is the part of me following me, telling me that i need to protect myself at all costs because i won't be able to survive this again.
she is a heavy, weighted blanket that I have to carry around at all times, lifting up and trying to smile as she whispers in my hear how worthless I am to everyone
If my depression was a person, they would be an overbearing, constantly criticizing, person that steals away happiness. I can't fully describe how I feel, but sometimes I feel like someone is just sucking out and stealing my happiness when I should be happy and enjoying life.
I have a happy life, and I am, at the risk of sounding egotistical, a good looking person. However, I can't help but feel whenever I look at myself that I'm not enough, or that I could never live up to peoples expectations. I also have an overbearing need to do almost anything to make myself presentable or likable. I will change how I look, act, or feel, even around my closest friends so they like me better, or so my life seems great and happy.
i don't know if this even is a depression, and I know this isn't everything I feel, but I wanted to try to put it into words. Thank you.
@SolangeloLife hey I understand this. It's definitely real. <3
someone who constantly says the truth even if it's the ugly truth no one needs to hear and driving all of people away
@DistortionHeart
if my depression was a person it would be a self-hating
jealous fake two-faced body shaming put downer.
@DeviinAnderson99
i hate that it does this to us.. depression isn't a nice person at all.
My depression would be Jack the Ripper. A fearful, predatory enigma inspiring terror at every opportunity. With almost spectre like qualities that haunt every waking moment and evade sleep with terrifying nightmares.