A Dream Like Mine

  1. Different flavors of depression

    1. The kind with the noise in your head that you can’t shut off
    2. The kind with the pain that you can’t quite locate in your body
    3. The kind with desire to cry for no reason, or reasons too small to make sense
    4. The kind where it just feels like things will never get better, even though you know they will.
    5. The kind with the feeling and/or thoughts of worthlessness
    6. The kind where you feel sort of randomly helpless, no matter you are trying to do, even when you know what to do and know you can do it.
    7. The kind where you feel too tired to do anything
    8. The kind where nothing, not even your favorite things, seem interesting
    • I’m sure I’ll identify more…

    Today is a small scoop of flavor #6.

    At least it’s small. Small scoops are when I force a smile and wait for my feelings to catch up to my body.  Small scoops are when you can push yourself to keep going and just ignore the feeling until it passes.

    2. Tagged:  Depression   The Baskin-Robins Model of Depression 

    Posted 9 months ago 45 notes

    1. karinanotcinerina said: I hug you! Also enjoy: hyperboleandahalf.blogs…
    2. iamjustcara said: Dude. Duuuude. This. Thiiiiis.
    3. openareas said: I feel like it’s always #1 with the others as sprinkles on the depression ice cream.
    4. jamiek said: A mix of nos. 4, 7 and 8 for me today. I hope yours gets easier soon.
    5. un said: Hmmm. Sorry you are going through that RC. Been through most all. The psychologist response to your comment might be “Who taught you to ignore your feelings?”
    6. designbuff said: Hmm…I’d say I’m about 3-8 today. Good times!
    7. silenticyriver said: I hope the icky stuff just melts away.
    8. emergentpattern said: I think I have a small scoop of every one of them most everyday.
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