What does it mean? (psychology question)?!


Question: When you're comfortable in your own depression


Answers: When you're comfortable in your own depression

i get more done when i am down rather than up. when you get
all revved up you might as
well do something very
physical, cause you
cannot think.

Comfort Zone

It might mean that familiar things are comfortable, even if they are miserable. In other words, the fear of changing is greater than the fear of staying the same.....even if you are miserable.

when you feel it is easier to just be depressed then get out of avoidance and fix your life.

That it has become familiar to you and even though changing is possible, you are not sure you want to leave the safety of the depressed feelings, as that is all you remember.

It means that you are used to being in a state of depression. That it is what is the "norm" for you. And that you have fallen into a rut of sadness, and that is easier for you then doing what it takes to get out of the slump.

Depression is part of human survival I think. One withdraws from sadness and pain. If we were not married we would all go to another lover and start again.

To me it would mean that I've become so comfortable with being miserable that I wouldn't want to change. To me that would be a truly scary thought that I would prefer to be miserable to changing my life for the better and there for my daughter's life also. Our depression does not only affect us but also those who love us and those whom we interact with each day. I would have to wonder what it was that I was so afraid of changing that I would rather stay sad an unfulfilled rather than do the work required to make a change for the better.

Dont want help

I am this way and I was diagnosed with Dysthymia(not sure I am spelling that right) But basically it was described as a depression that is never ending, it will always be there.

For myself, it's having become used to the lows (as well as the highs), and agree with other respondents about "comfort" and "familiarity" stuff. I'm not 'happy' in my depression of course, but I know what's going on and that it will pass. And I allow myself to 'be' depressed, take care of the body, and not 'beat up on myself' too much. I try to see/use these difficult and painful periods to catch up on rest, reading, writing poetry, sculpting/drawing/painting, and all done right in bed (I live in bed when depressed), to help Shape and Dispell the Darkness. For me, that creates "feeling comfortable in my own depression". Being bipolar seems to be getting 'easier' to deal with/go through as I get older. Its my life, not easy but interesting, challenging. I've become more accepting of myself and my life, for what it really is, not what I wish it really were!





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