Aura of Sadness

Write about the onset of your depression, visualizing it as a cloud, heavy rain, or a fog settling in.

This exercise invites you to personify your depression and express it in metaphorical terms, perhaps as a weather cycle. Realizing the ‘shape’ of your depression can help identify triggers and how it changes over time. Identifying what your ‘weather’ felt like at its onset may help you better understand how it evolved and ways to anticipate or alleviate its intensity.