fantastic post about depression

lizardlady · Jun 19, 2018, 06:06 AM

I thought of posting this in the depression forum, but thought it would be preaching to the choir. I stumbled across this at another site and love the analogy. I believe it applies to many forms of mental illness, not just depression.

https://www.sunnyskyz.com/blog/2528/...out-Depression

Quote:

When you have depression it's like it snows every day.

Some days it's only a couple of inches. It's a pain in the ***, but you still make it to work, the grocery store. Sure, maybe you skip the gym or your friend's birthday party, but it IS still snowing and who knows how bad it might get tonight. Probably better to just head home. Your friend notices, but probably just thinks you are flaky now, or kind of an a**hole.

Some days it snows a foot. You spend an hour shoveling out your driveway and are late to work. Your back and hands hurt from shoveling. You leave early because it's really coming down out there. Your boss notices.

hprodf · Jun 19, 2018, 06:39 AM

A nice analogy, sums it up pretty well

88Butterfly88 · Jun 19, 2018, 06:16 PM

Great analogy. I actually posted this myself in the depression forum yesterday, thought some people there may want to share it, hopefully it wasn't seen as preaching to the choir. Also heads up everyone, I'm told some of the comments are triggering.

eskielover · Jun 21, 2018, 06:18 PM

For my the snow storm was generated by my bad marriage. When I got out the snow storms became only intermittent. The relief gave me a chance to recover between the storms. This final storm is tough but having recovered by this point I can handle it much better even though it is requiring much if my focus. What a difference in how I feel also.

For me, then there was a sunny enough day, I took advantage if it & escaped to where the emotional blizzard was GONE. That way I had time to focus on cleaning things up rather than shoveling the same old crap that I was dealing with 24/7.

This works when depression is based on situations or environments (SAD).....not so easy when the depression comes from other sources.

lizardlady · Jun 21, 2018, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by 88Butterfly88

Great analogy. I actually posted this myself in the depression forum yesterday, thought some people there may want to share it, hopefully it wasn't seen as preaching to the choir. Also heads up everyone, I'm told some of the comments are triggering.

Butterfly, I didn't mean "preaching to the choir" in a bad way. To me the phrase means telling someone something they already know. No worries hon.

88Butterfly88 · Jun 22, 2018, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by eskielover

For my the snow storm was generated by my bad marriage. When I got out the snow storms became only intermittent. The relief gave me a chance to recover between the storms. This final storm is tough but having recovered by this point I can handle it much better even though it is requiring much if my focus. What a difference in how I feel also.

For me, then there was a sunny enough day, I took advantage if it & escaped to where the emotional blizzard was GONE. That way I had time to focus on cleaning things up rather than shoveling the same old crap that I was dealing with 24/7.

This works when depression is based on situations or environments (SAD).....not so easy when the depression comes from other sources.

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Originally Posted by lizardlady

Butterfly, I didn't mean "preaching to the choir" in a bad way. To me the phrase means telling someone something they already know. No worries hon.

Thank you