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Title: Name your depression
Post by: cazza on June 15, 2012, 01:26:04 PM

Hi Guys,
I've been told that it sometimes helps to 'name' your depression. I know Spike Milligan used to call his The Black Dog.
What do you all think of this and what name do you give yours?

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: Zaf on June 15, 2012, 01:32:07 PM

I'm not sure if it helps but I think of mine as a big black pit or sometimes a huge dark scary forest

Z xx

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: whiteadder on June 15, 2012, 01:55:15 PM

Fluffy

The name of the three headed dog in Harry Potter

1.  it's sometimes asleep

2.  it's got more than one personality

3.  Music makes it feel better

4.  it's big and scary

Head 1 is anxiety

Head 2 is depression

Head 3 is the real screw-up - all the bits I can't identify

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: whiteadder on June 15, 2012, 01:57:18 PM

Or maybe I should call it something banal, so I can laugh at it.

Like Graham

No offence if anyone is called Graham.

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: KateG on June 15, 2012, 02:26:01 PM

Mine is a big black pit too. I had just clambered to the edge of the pit and was climbing out. Now I am sliding back down into the depths

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: Sweetpea on June 15, 2012, 02:35:00 PM

The word I use for mine  is how I feel when I am bad and its Dread.

S x x x x

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: Catbrian on June 15, 2012, 08:21:08 PM

I used to call mine the black dog too.   Maybe we should opt for silly names, like Fido or muffin....

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: Got on June 21, 2012, 03:31:48 AM

It was Winston Churchill who called it his black dog.

I simply refer to my depression as depression, I am unsure of how giving it a pet name will alleviate my clinical symptoms. Anything I would name it would be deleted by the administrators anyway, as profane language is not allowed.

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: Holykimura on June 25, 2012, 01:13:31 PM

Quote from: Stevie on June 21, 2012, 03:31:48 AM

Anything I would name it would be deleted by the administrators anyway, as profane language is not allowed.

Me too, i'm chuckling to my self as I type, thinking of all the obscene things I would call it.  ()_

Title: Re: Name your depression
Post by: pinkphoenix on June 28, 2012, 06:41:01 AM

I've never thought of giving it a name! I think it's a good idea :)

Emma xx