I endorse this as a metaphor for what psychomotor retardation feels like, and that is a significant and fairly characteristic feature of depression.
However, it completely misses what I’d consider the worse parts of the condition. I think this short film, Nuggets, normally a metaphor for addiction, captures that extremely well. Everything is … diminished. Colors turn to gray. Music becomes monotonous. Food tastes bland. And you remember dimly that things were better once, but can’t quite remember what that felt like. And unlike with addiction, there is no bright light that brings you back even temporarily.
I know they’ve been repurposed here to symbolize Death, but Rowling’s dementors are a perfectly serviceable personification of the feeling.
As an aside, thanks to your excellent description of it, I now believe in “chronic fatigue syndrome” as a thing. I understand why noöne describes it as being like “depression without the really bad parts,” but that would have helped me get it earlier.
I endorse this as a metaphor for what psychomotor retardation feels like, and that is a significant and fairly characteristic feature of depression.
However, it completely misses what I’d consider the worse parts of the condition. I think this short film, Nuggets, normally a metaphor for addiction, captures that extremely well. Everything is … diminished. Colors turn to gray. Music becomes monotonous. Food tastes bland. And you remember dimly that things were better once, but can’t quite remember what that felt like. And unlike with addiction, there is no bright light that brings you back even temporarily.
I know they’ve been repurposed here to symbolize Death, but Rowling’s dementors are a perfectly serviceable personification of the feeling.
As an aside, thanks to your excellent description of it, I now believe in “chronic fatigue syndrome” as a thing. I understand why noöne describes it as being like “depression without the really bad parts,” but that would have helped me get it earlier.