If your depression were a physical creature, what would it be?

[aidjm]

I started thinking about this a few weeks back, and I wanted to get some other people's insights. I've done a bit of writing just for something to do, and I was thinking about writing a story about a person whose depression manifests itself as a physical being.

For me, I kind of pictured it as a big black lizard-thing that sits on my shoulders and digs in with its claws, and doesn't want to let go.

What about you guys?

[Cloudydaze]

That is an excellent analogy for depression. I can wholeheartedly relate.

[Gajas]

It's a soundless sizzling ice cold mass where your heart should be.

It's a huge black dog that sits on your chest and bares its teeth inches from your face.

It's everyone you ever trusted that turned on you.

It's every love you've ever had and lost.

It's someone you cared deeply for that left you when you needed them most.

It's the face hugger from the Alien movies, it blinds you, it makes you mute, it covers you so that you're cut off from the outside world, the outside world still goes on.

[Dinosaur_duck]

I see it more like a big black panther...sharp claws and teeth, constantly stalking and prowling just out of sight....always hungry for it's pound of flesh....

[KammyD87]

Depression is a deep sea fish. Something ancient and territorial. It just clamps onto you and drags you deeper and deeper. Drowning you. No reasoning. No vendetta. Just travelling lower and lower because that's where it lives. Revelling in the darkness while you gasp for air.

[Staralfur]

That's exactly how I feel

[ewart]

it stalks you every waking moment, it's sinister, it's heavy, it's unrelenting. it's a whirling black dervisher encircling every moment, every movement. It is a constant unwanted companion!

[rascal]

Armadillo.

[Zan]

It's definitely an extraterrestrial primordial Alien virus like being, dark colored with blood red sharp hooks and poisonous silver tooth like barbs and a malevolent intelligence that hones in on neural activity within the brain in order to pervert and distort its functional direction from something positive to the exact opposite so it can feed and suck and grow like a cancer cell. Agh - nasty thing it is --- but our body's immune system continues to fight it and sometimes defeats it, but yet is never able to kill the thing.   

[Kirt181]

A very clever synopsis. I agree with most but I  would add empty.

[HA1]

Hi Louise

Welcome, and I would agree empty sums it up.

K