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?
My depression would be a really sad person who starts to cry over the smallest things. They would always like to stay in bed, buried under the covers. They would block out everyone and everything in life and stare at walls for hours. Their mood would spread to everyone around them and make them sad, too.
If my depression was a person (let us say their name is LS),
LS would show what goes on inside you.
They would tear you down and tell you that you are not worth it.
They'll say that you are stupid and ugly and that no one would care if you're gone.
LS craves others' hurtful words and takes them to heart and then begins to turn your happy days to dark days.
Your proud moments to failures.
Your normal days to sad days...
LS loves others hurtful words...
"No one would care if you're gone".
You try to tell them "it's not true, that's a lie!"
"It's not a lie", they say
"You have NOBODY!"
"You are worth nothing! No one even notices you anyway"...
If my depression was a person,
I know for a fact that it would find your softest parts,
your weakest links...
and point at it,
drawing attention and digging a hole,
until you couldn't handle it anymore.
Until it makes you suffer as it has suffered.
If my depression was a person,
I wouldn't be here right now.
If my depression was a person it would be someone who has been with me for a long time. A toxic relationship where they are making me feel like I'm not good enough and that whatever I do, they would be ahead of me making sure I don't succeed. Just to be a pain they tells me that none of my friends care about me, and I believe it. They are great at manipulating and convincing.
@Dancingwithnoone
I agree depression is guilty of doing such of things like that.
If my depression were a person it would be the a very controlling and manipulative person. The kind of person to go out if their way to make sure that you do what they want. The one who would convince you that everyone you know is only trying to hurt you more so you slowly start to separate yourself from everyone close. And after they get you to be completely alone they would turn it right back around on you and make sure you know it was completely your fault that you distanced yourself from everyone
If my depression where a person it would be a loner......capable and used to being alone.....never having to explain how you feeling even if you felt able to share with someone willing to listen.
@lazyKatz
Sounds like I'd had one over the eight when I left this message
@lazyKatz aww.
If my depression was a person it would be a Dolores Umbridge - she washes my brain from time to time.
Something that is bad is associated with chaos. For me depression is very well-ordered. Comes in from time to time, every time it goes through similar stages. Until at some point I give it up so that I believe what it tells me. Just like Dolores she is super organised pedant who will try to show that what she does is good for you. But the turth is that she is very bad. But as we know we can beat her.
My twin best friends
I have made mistakes in my life that have hurt them both significantly :( My depression would look like both of them standing over me putting me down, calling me every name in the book, making me feel like even bigger crap than I already do :(
if my depression was depicted by a person it would be all warm and fuzzy and supportive until you open up to it then it stabs you in the back and hangs you by a chain to hang in pain (not suicidal) I just want my depression to end I want to be able to just live my life without being sad all the time I am constantly thinking about my future and if I pass next semester if I gained weight I am more scared of a scale than jumping off a cliff (again not suicidal) I feel like I am a viewer to my own life like I can't control myself
An oppressive demon with an organized strategy to make me as miserable as possible until i die.
if my depression was a person it would be the most loyal and trustworthy friend of mine. We would set BFF goals! It would never leave my side no matter how happy I am and would always be by my side when I am feeling down. I would be glad to have it.
@calmHand123
can you re-literate that?