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noname223
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- Aug 18, 2020
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I listen to Juice WRLD a lot recently. He always calls his addiction and mood issues "demons". Like in "FIghting Demons" one of his songs. They are often visualized in his music videos. Maybe it helps people to visualize them in order to cope with them. Giving the enemy a face and a proper name.
Allegedly Winston Churchill called his depressions "mad dog" or "black dog". Maybe this is only a myth. But many self-help books use that metaphor. David Foster Wallace called his depression in one of his works the "bad thing".
I am not sure maybe I should give my conditions also nickname. If I had to visualize them I would use the color "black" a lot. I did that in clinics.
It depends with whom I talk about. Maybe calling them demons can be helpful when I am talking with people who don't know much about mental health. I like metaphors. I don't know much about dogs this is why I don't use this metaphor. The "bad thing" is interesting. But I like the German translation of it even more.
Do you have nickname for your struggle? Have you ever tried to visualize it?
Allegedly Winston Churchill called his depressions "mad dog" or "black dog". Maybe this is only a myth. But many self-help books use that metaphor. David Foster Wallace called his depression in one of his works the "bad thing".
I am not sure maybe I should give my conditions also nickname. If I had to visualize them I would use the color "black" a lot. I did that in clinics.
It depends with whom I talk about. Maybe calling them demons can be helpful when I am talking with people who don't know much about mental health. I like metaphors. I don't know much about dogs this is why I don't use this metaphor. The "bad thing" is interesting. But I like the German translation of it even more.
Do you have nickname for your struggle? Have you ever tried to visualize it?