my portrayal of depression
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spaceguts[OP]
03.12.2018 23:25
Linkit bugs me when people describe depression as "a monster that follows them everywhere". it's both cliche (so cliche, in fact, that almost every monster people portray depression as is a multi-eyed, mostly if not all black serpentine-like creature.) and a little inaccurate.
at least from my point of view.
i see depression as more of being tied down by said monster. you want to escape, but the monster chaining you down is so powerful and so scary that you can't find the courage to. so you just sit there for a bit. and you forget that you could fix this if you just stood up and faced the monster and your problems eye to eye. sure it'll be hard, and it'll be scary, but life be like that sometimes. especially with harder things like this. even i haven't gotten there yet, and i'm the one telling you this.
if you try hard enough, the chains will eventually start to wither and fade. so you can punch that monster straight in the face and show it who's boss.
oof hope that's slightly better
I've used to have depression once..but I got over it and showed that monster who's boss
Here’s the thing. You can’t just “get over” depression, otherwise it’s not depression, it’s just emotion. I hate when people call basic sadness depression. You can learn to cope with depression, but it dosnt just go away. You can’t just ignore it or it just gets worse. I have anixiety, and it dosnt just magically disappear if I ignore it.
My depression monster is me. I fear myself. I hate myself and that literally means I'm telling myself to die every single day. What a nice day. In mine, I'm in a box that is unbreakable or either in a deep hole with the light shining so bright yet it so deep you can't get out. It also comes as like you're in an ocean trying to save yourself from the storm and not drown. It's basically chaotic and messy in my brain.