Depression In Clink's Life

During her journey through depression, a recorded history on her brother would allow Clink to deal with her depression, which seemingly controls any aspect of her life. For instance, depression seeming controls Clink in her comparison of the future being “erased, replaced with a dark gray fog of uncertainty, and we clung to the few things we could control” (17). Clearly, Clink feels a sense of sadness in this instance in which the comparison she uses depicts how depression seemingly controls her speech pattern and use of vocabulary. The use of words such as “dark gray”, and “clung” expresses not only the characteristics of someone dealing with depression who fights any changes that arise in the future, as well as someone needing real answers to what they are dealing with. A recorded history of her …show more content…
Consequently, Clink’s depression seemingly skews her view of her parents as being the culprits of hers and her brother’s disorders; causing Clink to believe the mental deviations from a normal thought process she and her brother experience coincide with standard belief that everything about a person is written in their genes. A recorded history on her brother would allow Clink to see that it is a possibility that she and her brother had their disorders because of simple luck, thus opening her eyes to the world around her. Instead of moping over what she could have done to save her brother, Clink could have overcome her depression and moved forward with the knowledge that she had depression because she was simply herself. Indeed, Clink’s depression seemingly controlled her thoughts and actions and through a hyperbole, Clink speaks her true feelings about her depression when speaking about her brother and states “I assumed that my illness was his illness”