Depression and BiPolar
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I took this at Deer River, which goes to show that even the most gorgeous places can be home to subtle as well. Read about Deer River here on on my blog.
Be kind to people, spread love, bring smiles. You never know what people are dealing with behind their masks. ♥
I'm starting a new series in which I try to portray different mental disorders, or the emotions of the person affected behind them.
Today depression.
AI composition.
It's weird how and when depression can hit you, because sometimes it comes out of nowhere. Sometimes everything can be going great in your life, better than they've ever been, and out of no where wham! Like a big rig slamming into you it just hits, you don't know why, there's nothing "wrong", nothing happened, you just all of a sudden feel down.
It's hard to even talk about, because what is there to say? Someone asks what's wrong, and the only response that really comes to mind is "I don't know". What do you do when it hits, when you're not a person who goes through it regularly enough to have a fix ready? When you're someone who doesn't take medication, or have a therapist, and you're just all of a sudden just feeling like complete and utter shit despite nothing you can think of being wrong?
I have answers for a lot of life's questions, I try to share them with you every day to help those who need it, this though is one I still haven't figured out.
Taken at Quoted Memories.
Quoted Memories
Rural Fresno County
Take thee even or take thee odd, I would not sleep here if I could,
Except for the memories and the stillness that now resides.
(With apologies to Archibald McLeish)
Nymphoides crenata, commonly known as wavy marshwort, is an aquatic perennial herb of the family Menyanthaceae endemic to Australia, found in all mainland states and the Northern Territory. It is a stoloniferous, floating, perennial with stems up to 3 m long. The petioles of the basal leaves are from 8–42 cm long. The leaf lamina are ovate to circular, and deeply cordate and vary from 3 to 15 cm in length. The stem leaves are smaller, and sometimes kidney-shaped. The flowers heterostylous, (see the gallery) and there can be from 8 to14 in clusters subtended by 1–4 stem leaves, or sometimes in spaced pairs along a short inflorescence. The calyx is from 5.5 to 16 mm long and the corolla from 20 to 50 mm in diameter. There are usually 4 lobes (sometimes 4 or 6) and there are usually 5 stigmas (but from 2-5). It grows on floodplains, in swamps, lagoons, irrigation channels, and also in temporarily inundated depressions, and in slow-flowing streams where the depth of the water is up to about 1.5 m deep, usually on mud, and it will persist on drying mud. 13171
The gentle depression of the ancient earthwork, Grimms Ditch, leads through the land of the beech trees. Love how those on the slope gently curve upwards making for some wonderful compositions. Taken in Barnes's Grove, Buckinghamshire.
Sometimes I just wanna shoot something scenic. Through the eye of the lens even things decayed have a natural beauty about them.
Main Station and Fuel Pump by: -ANHELO
Set by: Me
*Working Towards a Better WorldUntil you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it. - Geoffrey Boycott
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. -Jeanette Winterson
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it. - Rosalynn Carter
Depression is the inability to construct a future.- Rollo May
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! xo💜💜
This is long, but I found it fascinating.
30 million years ago a gigantic caldera was formed by the sudden collapse of overlying rock into an underground reservoir of molten rock. The resulting eruptions produced massive amounts of ash and debris which nearly refilled the depression. These deposits hardened into rock.
About a half million years ago flows of basalt lava poured into this area and capped it off. Over time, erosion by the Crooked River has exposed and sculpted the landscape that you see here. Nice work!
I've fantasised about creating a summery profile picture with winds blowing my hair in all directions. However, my previous attempt was a big failure. So here I am again, escaping from depression and gloomy mood by creating this new photo.
The background was taken at Borkum region. The rest is Photoshop editing.
This can be a tough time of the year for many people.
I know the devastation that depression can do to you and your loved ones.
I took 32 images of this composition, I achieved this photo after the 6th image and another 26 images chasing a recreation of the effect, I didn’t, I came close but no cigar. I didn’t envisage this photo before I took it, it was the result of experimentation. The composition of a single exposed rock was chosen to line up with mist muted sun radiating across the sea using a reverse ND grad. Right exposure but the shutter speed was too fast so I added a 6 stop ND filter, this slowed the shutter speed from 1/10 of a sec to 1.3 seconds with a couple of tweaks of the ISO, then hey pesto this lovely whirlpool effect around the rock, as soon the dark image flashed on the lcd I knew I had something, it was a bit different and so I found out not to be repeated. Have a nice weekend.
Schweizer Ried
Lauterach/Vorarlberg
May 2025
Holga 120N, Ilford HP5+, Rodinal 1+25
Easylith onto Fomatone 131 (old batch)
Siena Mix
Sulphur toner MT4, 1+200, 30 sec
During the Great Depression my mother’s parents did everything they could think of to keep their family fed and sheltered. Among other things Grandma became a dressmaker in their home and Grandpa made jewelry. My mother passed these earrings along to me before she died.
For the “Earrings” theme at Smile On Saturday.
And for the "Earrings" challenge at "Weekly Theme Challenge"
George Segal's famous "Depression Bread Line" (The Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey)
(The textures by SkeletalMess.
Thank you very much, Jerry Jones!)
An unexpected and welcomed leader in KCS SD70MAC 3928 leads train 261 through the depression under the Government Bridge in Davenport, IA.
March 16, 2026
My depressive peak that has been devastating me for several weeks seems to be coming to an end. It's a hard work on myself, and I wouldn't have the strength without my loved ones, and psychological help.
Pascal Quignard said that the only cure for depression is depression. To say it differently, I would say that the scars left by it are like the golden joints of the art of Kintsugi.
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Milena Carbone's art studio
Novels - art photography - dance performance
"Depression feels like something dark and rough, eating you from the inside. It feels like sharp, jagged rocks, forming from the inside of your heart. Slowly, piercing through every cell of your heart, jutting its way outside. Until finally... finally... it consumes you. Then, you become one with it"