Why I call this Depression Help blog Fraying Edges
Jun 12th, 2008 by zania
Someone asked me recently why I call this blog Fraying Edges, when it is about Depression Help for me and for anyone else who thinks this blog may help them cope with being depressed.
Well, I’ll admit that finding a domain name with Depression in the title would have been great, but the ones I wanted were all taken. But in any case, when I feel depressed I feel just like I am fraying at the edges, so the title I chose makes a lot of sense, to me anyhow.
When I feel depressed, it is as if the material with which I protect my life is fraying and, if I am not careful, those fraying edges will become a great big tear, renting my life assunder and leaving me naked and exposed.
When I am stressed, but not depressed, those fraying edges are symbols of everything I am trying to hold together - the tiny pieces of material I am finding difficult to control.
And when I am exhausted from hard work, those fraying edges are the picture of my mind, fragmenting in all directions and working on overload, not allowing me to take a well-deserved rest.
So that’s why this blog is called Fraying Edges Depression Help. Because, for me, finding ways to deal with those frayed scraps of material can help me cope with being depressed.
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Image: Today by s2art Posted Under Creative Commons Licence.
Hi I am the artist/photographer who’s image yuo have used in this article, could you please ‘attribute’ me as is in the terms of it’s cc licence
Hi Stuart, I did attribute you - if you hover over the image you will find the attribution in the link and the reference to the CC Licence.
In fact, that is probably how you found out I had used your picture in the first place - because it linked to you.
But by all means I’ll put your name below the picture (if I am able to do it correctly with this theme - I’m still working on some of its quirks).
I never steal content. I chose your picture because it was published under the CC licence which allowed it to be used for commercial purposes.
Of course, if you would rather I didn’t use any of your pictures again, that’s ok.
No harm intended.
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Excellent site frayingedges.com and I am really pleased to see you have what I am actually looking for here: this .. as it’s taken me literally 3 hours and 57 minutes of searching the web to find you (just kidding!) so I shall be pleased to become a regular visitor