I was very much a scapegoat in the family so they would come to me with all their problems, so it wasn't as if I felt that they were able to help me with what my issues were. So, I think sort of for a long time I found myself very boxed in, very sort of trying to worry about everybody else and not myself and it obviously built up and just at sort of fourteen. (DP15 female, came out of me 14) The most common metaphor in this group was that of physical emergence from depression experienced as a container, and this was indicated by verbs such as ‘come out’, out’, and This group of metaphors accounted for 29% ‘pour ‘escape’, ‘release’. of metaphors used by men and 20% of metaphor used by women. Containment metaphors most commonly represent the depression as a three-dimensional container that has a depth and a physical base from which the depressed person usually needs to out’: this verbal metaphor was one of the most common in all the interviews. ‘come However, as I have indicated above, out’ was also used was to describe the ‘come depression as There is therefore a contrast between being trapped within the self. whether the self is experienced as the container, or the depression is experienced as the container. For example, in the following the self is experienced as the container: And I thought, well, obviously I've got [um], this that needs to come out. And this is one of the interesting things about it, although it's... you are putting something out, another way you can think of it as allowing something which wants (DP13 male, 39) to come out of you, to come out.
I was very much a scapegoat in the family so they would come to me with all their problems, so it wasn't as if I felt that they were able to help me with what my issues were. So, I think sort of for a long time I found myself very boxed in, very sort of trying to worry about everybody else and not myself and it obviously built up and just came out of me at sort of fourteen. (DP15 female, 14) The most common metaphor in this group was that of physical emergence from depression experienced as a container, and this was indicated by verbs such as ‘come out’, ‘pour out’, ‘escape’, and ‘release’. This group of metaphors accounted for 29% of metaphors used by men and 20% of metaphor used by women. Containment metaphors most commonly represent the depression as a three-dimensional container that has a depth and a physical base from which the depressed person usually needs to ‘come out’: this verbal metaphor was one of the most common in all the interviews. However, as I have indicated above, ‘come out’ was also used was to describe the depression as being trapped within the self. There is therefore a contrast between whether the self is experienced as the container, or the depression is experienced as the container. For example, in the following the self is experienced as the container: And I thought, well, obviously I've got this that needs to come out. [um], And this is one of the interesting things about it, although it's... you are putting something out, another way you can think of it as allowing something which wants to come out of you, to come out. (DP13 male, 39)
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