So if you're depressed you should kill yourself

I agree.

Diana was obviously linked to her depression.

Killing herself to be rid of Diana / depression was a really irresponsible message by the filmmakers.

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No. Diana is NOT depression. Diana was a demon that MADE her host depressed. And the only thing that is able to kill this demon is to kill yourself.

Diana isn't depression.

Diana was an actual person who they suggest had some kind of psychic power to get into peoples' minds. She was killed by accident in treatment. Somehow her spirit/ghost has a seed in Sophie's head and is able to materialize out of Sophie's energy. Sophie's meds suppressed her ability to allow Diana to materialize. I've seen other movies where people have powers to see or create things that are suppressed by medicine.

I suppose you could argue that it is metaphorical, but I think that is looking too deeply since everyone else can see Diane also.

No, but if you are posessed by a killer demon that only kills others if you are alive, then yeah, you probably should.

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So if everything in this movie is a metaphor to you why are you looking at the bullet to the head as literal? Maybe that is just her taking her meds.

What are you smoking?

IF that's the metaphor we are going with I'm afraid it's deeper than that. If Diana represeted depression than it wasn't simply "I'm depressed I have to kill myself." That depression was the direct cause of harm to her family. As a metaphor we will say she killed no one, Diana is just depression lets not be drastic and say in her depressed state of mind she killed her previous husbands. However this is what the metaphor would break down to.

Due to her depression she herself changed into this horrific type of person, and was the cause of her previous relationships failing(Diana killing her husbands in the movie). In addition the scene where she is watching a movie with her son and introduces Diana quickly becomes child abuse if Diana is simply depression. He constantly tells her to stop doing what she is doing, he is afraid and concerned. IN this ways he does NOT stop and she continues to harm her child mentally. Since the monster is a metaphor it is likely verbal abuse in the real spectrum of things.

She single handedly destroys her family even though they were trying to help her. Her current husband before his demise(divorce as metaphors go) was looking into her case(illness) and trying to find a way to help his wife. He was pushed away (killed in the movie) by this depressive side of her.


In this particular film if we use the metaphor of Diana as depression then the mother literally became this horrible monster of a person and saw no way to help her family than to remove herself from the picture as she was very literally the cause of ALL of her family's issues. Every time they tried to help her she turned against them (Since Diana is just a metaphor and not actually doing anything) the mother herself was actually lashing out at the family.

So no it wasn't Depress=kill yourself.

In her specific case it was depression turning her into a twisted person that only harmed the ones she loved. Upon realizing this she saw no other recourse but to take her own life to try and give what was left of her family a better one.

Not as cut and dry as you seemed to take it. Regardless no one should kill themselves in a real life situation.

I've baited my hook with my own underwear. Is it wrong that I hope to catch a fish I can relate to?-Ragdoll.

If she had the time to get better Diana would eventually go away, but she didn't have the time, Diana was going to kill her children, she had to kill herself to save them.