Although a
train can be compared to a “normal” person’s brain, a better example is that a
crowded New York City subway is equivalent to a depressed individual’s mind.
The outside of the subway is slick, clean and silver and looks uniform
throughout, but the inside is full of sweaty sticky, angry and discombobulated
beings. Depression has the same affect on the brain, the outside is composed,
but the inside is swirled with negativity and confusion and all the thoughts
are different. Just as people clash on the train, there can be conflict with
the thoughts and they cannot flow. Every human comes from different backgrounds
therefore they act as an individual and not alike one another. Thoughts are the
same because sometimes they can be opposite to one another and they’re all
different but in a small, enclosed space together. The subway is completely
flooded with bodies one after another as far as the eye can see. When you look
down from one end of the train you cannot see the end because there are just
bodies. A depressed mind is flooded too with swirling negativity. You try to
look for an end to the sea of depression but when you search, you just see more
sadness. All the thoughts are different and they can range from very minor to
more than extreme, just like people. In a train there can be minor tempered
individuals that are just on the train to get to work, while the others can be
having a bad day and they’re angry at everything. All these people are close
together and they cannot move anywhere even if they needed too. The train is
infinitely full of angry people, shifting and moving, pushing one another and
even yelling at each other. The brain can be the same because your thoughts are
always changing and making connections even if its all negative. The thoughts
are all clustered together and they can either go harmoniously or clash with
one another.
If one were
to look into a train from the outside, they would just see the organized and
uniform shell of the train. The train is actually a casing to a disorganized
hell that is full of sadness and confusion. An individual with depression looks
normal on the outside because they try to protect the negative thoughts on the
inside from coming out. Little do outside viewers know, the inside of their
minds are so full of darkness and sadness that nothing else can be seen. No
matter how content they may look on the inside, the thoughts are always there
and they are always discombobulating and overwhelming.
