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As I've posted before, I suffer from chronic anxiety and chronic depression (meaning I won't get better) but I found that personalizing my mental illnesses helped me not only come to temrs with this fact, but also helped me cope with them when I should suffer an attack.
Now, I got inspired by the movie "Split" where the main character has a multiple personality disorder, and explains these peronalities to be sitting in a chair each in a room, and whatever personality takes conrtol of the host, takes the "light" as it were. To me this made me think of a sort of spotlight, and whoever has the spotlight has the scene, and this is very much how my mentall illness operates. Now I do not claim to have multiple personalities, that is not the case, but! My mentall illnesses, Anxiety and Depression, acts in this manner, so for people who don't have any mental illness (you lucky bastards ) it is like this (for me, it can vary from person to person and the different illnesses)
Now as I said, anxiety and depression will never go away, but they will not be as active each day. This being the "good and bad days" you'll hear people with mental illnesses speak of. So one day, I won't notice my anxiety and depression at all, it will be as they aren't there at all, but this will be more like me having the spotlight, and they just wait in the background sleeping or taking a break. Other days, Anxiety might take the light, and then Depression takes it for a spin, and on really bad days, these boys have learned to share and will both be in the spotlight.
The thing is, I never know what the next day will bring, I never know how long depression or anxiety is gonna stay in the light, or if they're both gonna attack, this is something I've learned to live with, and I have great friends around me who support me through it.
As of right now I had a break from the boys for a while, then now I feel depression wanting the light, but that's okay, because it is always Okay to not be okay
Explanation fo the drawing:
For those who don't get the drawing, Anxiety is the purple one, and Depression is the red one.
Wolfy's heart is split in 3, with the color of each, this representing the thing I said of how I never know who will take the light for the day, so it is like a wheel of missfortune, where whoever takes the light will dominate the heart.
Also- i do that do!! ive found that even giving my "sides" names and a design- it helps me see clearer and feel better about myself