A Kid's POV

TishaBuv · Aug 20, 2016, 08:53 PM

My 14 year-old son and I had a nice, meaningful conversation about Depression. Here is what he wrote for me:

To not be depressed try to look at only the good Things in life like cool buildings or flowers or whatever, I think that it's hard for you sometimes because the only thing to think about is what is depressing because there is so much going on at once. When I'm sad I think of what makes me happy like some cool anime that I saw or some funny thing that I watched, also you should instantly try to get that thought out of your mind, sometimes I do that by saying super cheesy stuff like "don't let them get you down" or some stupid 90's infomercial thing like that and it sometimes works. But when it doesn't I kick in the mental God effect which is like my sense of a 4th wall break which is when i say like "alright don't be sad .... Blah blah blah don't let it get you down blah blah blah." Sometimes I think of my thoughts as a script and it's very predictable. I don't know how I do this but i think this is the concept that is impossible to explain. It might kinda be like its placebo thing where I constantly say weird things. Eventually I got this sense of when you swim up out of a deep pool and take a huge breath, that was when I got the sense of a mental God, like I unlocked part of my brain that I couldn't access before. I felt like the anime character that the nerdy kids who are insecure wanted to be but it was in a weird moderation type of way, I realized that I am a normal person and that's okay, know one really is perfect and that is okay. That phrase I think is very confusing because people say you are special but then they say know ones perfect. Then I realized it just meant that everyone in the world is pretty so-so and that the people that insecure people want to be are just as okay as everyone else. I realized that perfect doesn't exist in the world, yet it only exists in your mind and that the only perfect thing is your self and to realize how other people aren't as good as some people and aren't worth getting sad over. Or this could all be wrong and I have no idea what I'm saying 8=======D =)