My get pushed challenge from Wendy Helton @photohoot was to "Take images that portray the emotion of depression."
These non-staged shots of my bedroom on Monday are one portrayal of depression to me. Taken when the construction crew arrived to begin demo; we didn't have everything completely ready and out of the downstairs, so we hastily threw the remaining boxes and flotsam and jetsam on the porch, in the car, in our bedroom etc.
This does look worse than the bedroom usually looks, and it is not actually depressing me right now (discouraging me a bit, but not depressing).
But the truth is, one part or another and often our whole house is cluttered with stuff that should have been sorted, put away, thrown away etc long ago, making it difficult to find what I'm looking for. And a year and a half ago, that was indeed a big contributing factor to the anxiety and depression I was experiencing -- mainly from difficulties I was having at work. I had never understood the clinical depression my husband and my son both have struggled with until then.
In addition to showing what I was depressed about, in general the depression felt like lack of control and/or lack of energy to improve my situation, kink of like this image.
So this is my first offering for my get-pushed assignment. Sigh... :-)
I know where you're coming from. Mess and clutter upsets me also. But I know I can fix it, which makes me feel better, and there's the sense of satisfaction after it's all been cleared and tidied up... Eventually :)
Thanks for your transparency! Glad you're not depressed over this. :) I can definitely relate to the discouragement of clutter! Well captured. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
