Re: What's the difference between depression and boredom?
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 3:44 pm
You've got it down, isabellsophie.
I have suffered depression: and I knew it wasn't boredom. Boredom - for me - is easy to cure. I can listen to a CD or watch a comedy DVD. I can read a book. I can write happy poems. I can go out for walk in the fresh air... the list goes on. But when I'm depressed, those things only help temporarily. Because the CD ends. The DVD finishes. The book is read. The poem lasts a very short while and then I have to walk home. And I'm back where I started.
Depression clouds your day and takes your enthusisiam and happiness out the window. You can follow all the tips to look on the bright side and try to be happy, but those tips don't work for depression. I can't make things better.
My mind is a hard, complex thing to understand. And others with depression are the same. Depression makes you feel isolated and loses your motivation. And people think you're lazy or that you can't be bothered to try. They're wrong. I can be bothered to try but these feelings they'll never understand. They will offer the usual advice: go out for a walk, get fresh air, watch a comedy DVD. But you can do all those things and still need pushing.
I have suffered depression: and I knew it wasn't boredom. Boredom - for me - is easy to cure. I can listen to a CD or watch a comedy DVD. I can read a book. I can write happy poems. I can go out for walk in the fresh air... the list goes on. But when I'm depressed, those things only help temporarily. Because the CD ends. The DVD finishes. The book is read. The poem lasts a very short while and then I have to walk home. And I'm back where I started.
Depression clouds your day and takes your enthusisiam and happiness out the window. You can follow all the tips to look on the bright side and try to be happy, but those tips don't work for depression. I can't make things better.
My mind is a hard, complex thing to understand. And others with depression are the same. Depression makes you feel isolated and loses your motivation. And people think you're lazy or that you can't be bothered to try. They're wrong. I can be bothered to try but these feelings they'll never understand. They will offer the usual advice: go out for a walk, get fresh air, watch a comedy DVD. But you can do all those things and still need pushing.