SDMB Ongoing Depression Support Thread

[Sunspace]

@Ms.Pumpkin

Sunspace, I wish I had some helpful advice for you, but I have absolutely no experience with college(I know now that my mental health was a major factor in deciding not to further my own education), and I’m terrible at making friends, romantic or otherwise. Maybe you can seek out the woman you get along with, and try to become friends. Even if she’s not interested in you, she might be a “matchmaker” type with single girlfriends! Okay, it’s a long-shot, but it’s all I’ve got!

Thanks.

@Ms.Pumpkin

I just googled “prosopagnosia”. Would you mind explaining a little more about it, as it relates to you? It seems like there are a lot of variables and levels of severity among its sufferers. If you don’t want to talk about it, that’s fine. I’d just never heard of it until now and I’m curious about what it’s like.

Malleus, Incus, Stapes! started a great thread on prosopagnosia a while ago. In it, I describe what it’s like:

@Sunspace

The general effect is something like being surrounded by an eternal costume ball. Everyone’s identity is obscured by a mask of varying opacity, and only the people I’ve known well have transparent masks that I can see through and see who they are. But that developer at work I met twice is a masked figure saying hi in the hall. And if the light reflects oddly off the mask of someone I’ve known for twenty years, I can’t see them either.