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Published: 2007-01-11 16:40:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 10772; Favourites: 202; Downloads: 1211
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a simple manip about a complicated subject. i'm speaking of major depression, not the variety that everyone feels at times. sometimes the hardest thing to do when one is depressed is to talk to people; not just about the depression, but anything. only those who've experienced it know how terribly alone one can feel. unchecked, depression=desperation=suicide.
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as one who suffers, I think your photo does a good job of covering the illness, well done
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Simple yet powerful image. Didn't know inability to communicate was part of major depression...
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It definitely is for me. I don't comment much here at DA, or talk a lot in RL. Of course, I also have social anxiety along with the depression.
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Not a good combination to have. I've noticed I've become less communicative over the years. Just no connection anymore as people don't like leaving their comfort zone.
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First artwork I've seen on the entirety of dA that accurately sums up, at least for me personally, everything about depression and the way it makes you feel.
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Thank you so much, I appreciate your saying that! I've lived with depression all my life.
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:/
I have no idea how long I've had it for, but it only really became obvious and got diagnosed about five months ago... it's awful
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Can't say it'll get better, but just remember that someone out there is feeling the same way, however much it feels like you're alone.
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I'm an M.D. Could I use this image in a presentation that I'm holding for a group of depressed patients that I've been asked to do? The topic is "Current trends in depression management", which is kinda an awful title (which I'm going to shorten to "depression"), so I'll try to squeeze in some art therapy to make the medical stuff a bit more bearable. The presentation will be in Finnish, so I don't think it'll be of much use to English speakers.
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Thanks, man. Yeah... too damned familiar.
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I try to think of that, but when the depression's at it's worst it doesn't really matter much. I can feel isolated and alone in a room full of friends and family when it's really bad.
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I n s p i r a t i o n a l. Nice, Emotional, DespitFul.
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This is bullseye on target. I've never seen a starker, more truthful representation of this woeful state. While this is a picture of agony - or of a condition so disorienting as to be beyond agony - it contains, for the viewer at least, the hope of avoiding or escaping depression because it is an artful and bold response to depression; it is not depression itself.
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your wonderful work was featured here: [link]
I hope you like it
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I know what it feels like, especaially day after day with seemingly no end in sight.
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medication helps, but there ain't no cure.
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I know that. I've tried a number of meds
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I suffered this at a young age, about 12, 13 and 14, three years, untill I did something stupid that maby finally got the point across, I'm 16 now and have been free for 1 1/2 years...
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good that yours was temporary. major depression can begin at a very early age and continue throughout one's life. most need daily medication to live with it.
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Yeah I had it at the age of 9 with anger issues, and then it worsened. Although, I battled for 3 years, and then the meds were the only thing that worked. It was horrid, and the way I got help was with a attempt at my own life. I know well, though, it may come back, untill then, I will try to live life to the fullest. It may not come back, who knows for sure.
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I hear ya buddy 
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it's a pain to look at and say, "what is going on inside me? that makes it so i can't break free?"
i feel comfortable talking to you about it - right around the time, almost exactly, Brian passed..I would often experience a kind of paralysis..others i knew would be right in front of me and i could not reach out. and it was like..wow, i get a fucking consolation prize for showing up, big deal. you know? and, if you talk, it's making something all about you that and you really don't want that.
not just what's going on inside me, but what is going on all around and there's nothing i can do..but it sinks into those deepest levels where i feel like there is something i can do and puts a chokehold.
the deepest chokehold - to be an artist like this and face it, often it seems like there's a fork that makes this moment empowering , that we do have some faculties over the response to it..or it finally shows its face, saying 'i finally don't have to hide my gameplan, cuz you have succumbed to me'.
i guess, i'm trying to look at how depression as a living idea is also an animated force..that we can look at this way, if it comes as our own risk, at the level of the artist, he has still brought it bravely for others who will conquer that force in himself from a centered place.
that makes you a healer in making this, and you have done something great, and offered honestly.
all the vibrating fractals in the world might be worth this one moment them, between you and this and what we just spoke about in this conversation
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thanks for the very thoughtful comment. "a kind of paralysis..others i knew would be right in front of me and i could not reach out." i've lost a lot of friends at DA for that very reason. thanks for still being there, even if i often can't reach out.
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i always will be, too.
your welcomed back, as we all have a tendency to come & go according to how our lives play.
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i totally agree with you. i love this. the pain is uncomprehensable for some people. i have gone through it and more- so if you ever need to talk- im here.
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love this picture, and the description as that is what it is truly like, you are alone, you do suffer alone, and to be alone was what you do 
This is very good work, thankyou for sharing this
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