Depression
Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the bodies basic essential to choke the living shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it - Author Unknown.
Quite a simple, yet very truthful short way to sum up stress. But how to sum up depression??? I have been trying to sum up and explain depression to people that don't suffer from it. This is what I have come up with:
You are alone - you are walking at night in a dark alley in the pouring rain... the cloud is just over your head and you have no way to protect yourself. You come to a corner where there is a brightly lit restaurant with large windows. You can feel the warmth and love in the room. When your eyes adjust, you realize that the room is filled with everyone you love - they are all laughing, eating, talking and having the time of their lives. You knock on the window... at first no-one notices, so you knock again. This time the room stops buzzing and everyone turns to look at you. You smile and wave, looking for the entrance. Just then everyone scowls at you; someone gets up and closes the drapes and the room erupts with laughter. That moment that you realize you are not welcome... that is depression. That feeling, however, is over you for days... weeks.. whatever. That black cloud - lingering, hovering.... enveloping your entire existence.
Quite a simple, yet very truthful short way to sum up stress. But how to sum up depression??? I have been trying to sum up and explain depression to people that don't suffer from it. This is what I have come up with:
You are alone - you are walking at night in a dark alley in the pouring rain... the cloud is just over your head and you have no way to protect yourself. You come to a corner where there is a brightly lit restaurant with large windows. You can feel the warmth and love in the room. When your eyes adjust, you realize that the room is filled with everyone you love - they are all laughing, eating, talking and having the time of their lives. You knock on the window... at first no-one notices, so you knock again. This time the room stops buzzing and everyone turns to look at you. You smile and wave, looking for the entrance. Just then everyone scowls at you; someone gets up and closes the drapes and the room erupts with laughter. That moment that you realize you are not welcome... that is depression. That feeling, however, is over you for days... weeks.. whatever. That black cloud - lingering, hovering.... enveloping your entire existence.
Labels: depression, stress
posted by Alayne | 22:30
2 Comments:
Ah Denise. That's so sad -- what a vivid picture. I hope you always know that you are loved. Life is difficult enough as is, never mind feeling like you are going through it alone. Hugs.
Thanks Chris... I know - as are you...
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