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hi Sam I Am, welcome back! when our depression was sososo bad, so bad that we couldn’t find the feelings below it, we started to draw. oh, we’re really bad drawers!!! but you don’t have to be good. we got some paper and crayons (but you can use pencils or paints or whatever) and we got very quiet and closed our eyes and tried to look for the feelings, to see what part of our body they were in. and then we drew a picture of that part of the body and the feelings. then we wrote about the picture. it works really good. us, of Ravensong – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -It’s me again. I’ve been away for a long time. I am not sure how well I will do at keeping in touch, but I need to connect with others who can relate. I have a question too. It has to do with the deep depression I am experiencing. My T suggested my depression is pushing down other emotions that may need to be brought up. How do each of you experience your depressive times and have you ever been able to pin-point emotions that are hidden beneath it all? I look forward to hearing from old as well as new friends. Call me, Sam I Am
"If you feel bad, blow bubble stuff or watch the snails after it rains. That always makes me feel better." – Katy, of Ravensong
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Hi, It’s me again. I’ve been away for a long time. I am not sure how well I will do at keeping in touch, but I need to connect with others who can relate. I have a question too. It has to do with the deep depression I am experiencing. My T suggested my depression is pushing down other emotions that may need to be brought up. How do each of you experience your depressive times and have you ever been able to pin-point emotions that are hidden beneath it all? I look forward to hearing from old as well as new friends. Call me, Sam I Am
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oh, btw, don’t worry if your picture looks stupid. that’s ok. us again. "If you feel bad, blow bubble stuff or watch the snails after it rains. That always makes me feel better." – Katy, of Ravensong
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Writing dialogues with my depression has helped at times, asking about what is beneath it and asking whatever other questions come to mind. It’s also helped at times to visualize my depression and write a description of it, and then do free-flow writing from the perspective of the depressoin. Personifying the depressoin in these ways can help create enough distance to gain a different perspective. -Nancy
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hi Sam I Am. welcome back. i have a very hard time with depression. it wipes out nearly _all_ other feelings and does such a number on my head that i don’t even realize i’m depressed, i think i’m just lazy and worthless. i think Ravensong’s idea of drawing is very good. i’m not usually able to get to other emotions until the depression lifts by itself, so i don’t have any other recommendations. sorry. or, i just thought of this, maybe if you pick out some music to listen to, your choice could give you a clue. if you choose something angry or frantic, say, or something sad and slow. tess valerian – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, It’s me again. I’ve been away for a long time. I am not sure how well I will do at keeping in touch, but I need to connect with others who can relate. I have a question too. It has to do with the deep depression I am experiencing. My T suggested my depression is pushing down other emotions that may need to be brought up. How do each of you experience your depressive times and have you ever been able to pin-point emotions that are hidden beneath it all? I look forward to hearing from old as well as new friends. Call me, Sam I Am
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i just thought of this, maybe if you pick out some music to listen to, your choice could give you a clue. if you choose something angry or frantic, say, or something sad and slow.
This idea reminded me of something else that sometimes can help a little with depression. Listening to very sad music that matches the depression, then gradually playing different, less sad music over the course of an hour or so, and ending with uplifting, cheerful music, can sometimes bring the mood up slightly in response to the changes in the music. -Nancy
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i also use drawing and music and sometimes screaming and talking to the moon to try and open gates or doors or windows or even little peep holes for emotions that depression shuts down. trill
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – hi Sam I Am, welcome back! when our depression was sososo bad, so bad that we couldn’t find the feelings below it, we started to draw. oh, we’re really bad drawers!!! but you don’t have to be good. we got some paper and crayons (but you can use pencils or paints or whatever) and we got very quiet and closed our eyes and tried to look for the feelings, to see what part of our body they were in. and then we drew a picture of that part of the body and the feelings. then we wrote about the picture. it works really good. us, of Ravensong It’s me again. I’ve been away for a long time. I am not sure how well I will do at keeping in touch, but I need to connect with others who can relate. I have a question too. It has to do with the deep depression I am experiencing. My T suggested my depression is pushing down other emotions that may need to be brought up. How do each of you experience your depressive times and have you ever been able to pin-point emotions that are hidden beneath it all? I look forward to hearing from old as well as new friends. Call me, Sam I Am "If you feel bad, blow bubble stuff or watch the snails after it rains. That always makes me feel better." – Katy, of Ravensong
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hidden emotions?maybe thats right whats up with me. i’m feeling depressed right now and why?might be emotions,i cried for the first time a couple of weeks ago.I cant cry if i want to,i might feel releaved after it. maybe the hidden emotion is sadness in mine case.it could be. but i don’t know how to cry so how do i get rid of that emotion being hidden? good question,yes. depression comes and go’s with me.gets better when i know whats wrong but now i don’t know whats wrong. cause maybe i get to isolated and there ia a lot of sadness within.they cry inside me. if i know whats wrong then i can go inside and ask to make it better,arrange something. Olda – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi, It’s me again. I’ve been away for a long time. I am not sure how well I will do at keeping in touch, but I need to connect with others who can relate. I have a question too. It has to do with the deep depression I am experiencing. My T suggested my depression is pushing down other emotions that may need to be brought up. How do each of you experience your depressive times and have you ever been able to pin-point emotions that are hidden beneath it all? I look forward to hearing from old as well as new friends. Call me, Sam I Am
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me, too on this one also. i just free write. follow the pen, just like in drawing. and see what comes out. sometimes many surprises. sometimes to get started i read a poem, either new or one that i know i like a lot, then choose one line from it and make it a first line for the poem that i will write and just see what happens. and sometimes i just start writing with something as plain and simple and banal as "today smoke from a wild fire in quebec blew into our skies and made me think a storm was coming when it wasn’t but in the end it dirtied the air even though we had managed to clean up our own mess by getting people to stop using their cars so much." then other stuff comes out. trill p.s. sometimes i also pretend to be a different peerson and start writing from that imagined pov about stuff in my life.. once that ended up being an award winning short story. so ther e caan be other bennies from such exercises besides breaking through depression.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Writing dialogues with my depression has helped at times, asking about what is beneath it and asking whatever other questions come to mind. It’s also helped at times to visualize my depression and write a description of it, and then do free-flow writing from the perspective of the depressoin. Personifying the depressoin in these ways can help create enough distance to gain a different perspective. -Nancy
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tess valerian, i think you are smart and wise and interesting and assertive and somebody i would like to know inperson and hope that can happen soon since i do know that you are currently in walking distance of my messed up pile of boxes in my otherwise nice new condo in the woods. samiam i am glad to see you here again [p;ls scrp;;p;oll.
hi Sam I Am. welcome back. i have a very hard time with depression. it wipes out nearly _all_ other feelings and does such a number on my head that i don’t even realize i’m depressed, i think i’m just lazy and worthless.
yjhis sop sorry, i mean this is the same exact thing for me and sometime i cant even get out of bed for hours for days. my legs done even eseem to work and i get scared that i am being bad to the potato though she ckeeps loving me a lot. i think Ravensong’s idea of drawing is very good. i’m not usually able to get to other emotions until the depression lifts by itself, so i don’t have any other recommendations. sorry. or, i just thought of this, maybe if you pick out some music to listen to, your choice could give you a clue. if you choose something angry or frantic, say, or something sad and slow.
about depressions lifting by themselves i don’t know if that happens or if i do something to lift them. that’s probably a function of mylevle of dissociation. i think my dissociation is much more severe and frequent, as is my ptsd response stuff like hypervigilence than my depression. plse keep srolling — from tril tess valerian
i mean, trill speaking again, to please, if you want or are willing or care to or are interested, to keep srcolling from here for more comments and remarks from me, trill: Hi, It’s me again. I’ve been away for a long time. I am not sure how well I will do at keeping in touch, but I need to connect with others who can relate. I have a question too. It has to do with the deep depression I am experiencing. My T suggested my depression is pushing down other emotions that may need to be brought up.
this is my exact definition of depression — the not being able to experience emotion, good badd or anytother emotional realm How do each of you experience your depressive times and have you ever been able to pin-point emotions that are hidden beneath it all?
sometimes via talk thrpy with the t or in a convesation with a friend i get some sorta mind clearing epiphany. and sometimes from drawing or painting or making collages or playing piano or playing records or free writing. i addressed this stuff in another post. in this thread. sorry for my disjointed and typo and mistake ridden writing today but i’ve had it bad for a coupla days witn depression and myalgias and exhaustion ahnd right now megamoigrane I look forward to hearing from old as well as new friends.
i think i’m a friend somewher in the middle of that scale. and i’;m glad to see you back at asd, sam i am. i always appreciate your posts, your questions and your answers and your persesverance at life despite the many serious impediments that have comeyour way. i like, admire, and respect you, sam i am. and i enjoy your company. please, i hope you can hang around for awhile. your friend of some type and some time, trill – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Call me, Sam I Am
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