Surrounded by a thick dense fog
posted May 4th, 2021 at 8:31 PM
Depression is like a thick, dense fog that doesn’t just follow you around. It surrounds you. You’re in it and it’s pitch black. I’m talking pitch black like the sky out in the bush away from the city light. But unlike the sky it’s like you’re drowning, both legs chained to iron balls. You’ve been treading for so long, grasping for anything that floats by. You’re white knuckling it, trying to hold on for your life because you don’t want to hurt your loved ones by letting go. You’re exhausted. You so desperately need it to end. You need relief, and yet you are lost, alone, head barely above the surface in a sea of darkness. There’s no way out, no way through. There’s just no other way.
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May 4, 2021 at 11:41pm
Great imagery. Nice writing.
automaton
May 5, 2021 at 12:13am
There is another way out. Face the darkness. Be the shift within the shade, and you will discover the grey. It is so much easier to paint bright colors over grey; one has to do the work of getting there.
You are with the effort
May 5, 2021 at 1:25am
You are worth it, and your loved ones are with it. You are loved, hold on. Reach out for help.
Do not give up
May 5, 2021 at 4:26am
Do not give up. Contact the suicide hotline, of on medication- change your meds. Talk with someone, even a ear that will listen
Wish I
May 5, 2021 at 7:25am
Could help you out of it.
Privileged"
May 5, 2021 at 8:02am
Getting a dog gave me enough reason to live, companionship and exercise to keep all that you speak of at bay. Not everyone can have one, I realize but it worked for me. I already had another dog lined up when my last one died as a precaution.
Wow...
May 5, 2021 at 9:24am
You paint a vivid and so accurate portrayal of depression. I so remember being there, it’s so awful :( but there is always a way out, the Universe works in mysterious ways.
Clinical depression
May 5, 2021 at 12:10pm
is a horrible experience. I have felt it. But it is a disease that can be treated. Please seek help. Medications can be very effective. I also want to comment that you are a very good writer.
Stop
May 5, 2021 at 2:04pm
romanticizing depression.
@Stop
May 5, 2021 at 8:13pm
Doesn’t look to me like they are romanticizing anything.
Writing is a form of catharsis which the op desperately needs at this time.
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