The disagreement here seems to be around how literally one should interpret the metaphor.
I agree depression could be more accurately described as “lack of caring” than “must do endless puzzles”. However, the purpose of the post is to describe the depressive experience to people who cannot relate.
To that end, I like the sudoku metaphor. If you tell someone “depression means I just don’t care and can’t muster willpower to do things I should/need to do” a lot of people may—consciously or not—judge this as a voluntary condition where the solution approximates to “have you tried caring?”
Sudokus help illustrate the (what feels like) involuntary roadblocks to otherwise simple life processes, the way these roadblocks ramify insidiously into more sub-components of life over time, and the level of fatigue, suffering, and defeat this inflicts.
The disagreement here seems to be around how literally one should interpret the metaphor.
I agree depression could be more accurately described as “lack of caring” than “must do endless puzzles”. However, the purpose of the post is to describe the depressive experience to people who cannot relate.
To that end, I like the sudoku metaphor. If you tell someone “depression means I just don’t care and can’t muster willpower to do things I should/need to do” a lot of people may—consciously or not—judge this as a voluntary condition where the solution approximates to “have you tried caring?”
Sudokus help illustrate the (what feels like) involuntary roadblocks to otherwise simple life processes, the way these roadblocks ramify insidiously into more sub-components of life over time, and the level of fatigue, suffering, and defeat this inflicts.