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Facing the void of depression

🕑 Added 2024-10-14 16:00:01 +0000 UTC

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Guardian Jackpot

3:20 .. 3 minutes & 20 sec's: at which: your chipper-self says, "Yay!". Q: Is that a thing you do to signal the end of story-book time for kids ? Q: ... and after having said all the lines correctly ? Q: ... & for completing the entire usage of the set ? 2024Y10M28D @AnnaAkana 1539H(GMT-5H).

Anna Akana

Haha exactly !!

mrb

This was amazing. And very appropriate for the day.

Jeremy N

Love the framing that the void is a destination that we all arrive at, but it is not the final one. You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Anna Akana

I think you'll really enjoy it!

Jeremy F

Yes, I really enjoyed that movie -- very surreal, often funny, quite moving.

MFKAIJU

Definitely a good reframing of the reminder that depression is forever in that there's no cure only ways to manage it better, that these visits to the void are not(had my own extended visit last week). Also def gonna check out Tim's flick when I have a moment!

Richard Lopez

I wrote this in Dec of 2020 and by no means am I a poet, but I felt the need to jot it down in my notepad. And just like in the video there really was no escaping the void for me, just slowly learning to accept certain parts of myself. I’m still crashing on the couch but I’m not curled up in fetal position crying anymore. Anyways here’s my awful poem. He stares into the void, fascinated by the emptiness and loneliness that lies within. He thinks how awful it would be within that infinite darkness. Fear overtakes him all at once as he realizes he’s been looking within himself the entire time. A life lived absent of the love he desires, craves, and felt he deserved. Desperation takes hold, gripping and suffocating. Gasping for breath, but there is no escaping his own existence. Slowly sinking with no one to call to. As he stares into the void he sees himself staring back, broken and consumed.