[ SECRET POST #4595 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4595 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I know that feeling.

Glad you used a picture of my spirit animal for the secret, too.

[(Anonymous)]

<3 <3 <3

[rosehiptea]

I haven't written in a long time and depression is a big part of it. I just have this feeling of "Who the hell wasn't to read something you wrote?" and it's hard to get motivated.

I wish I had suggestions for you. Sometimes it helps me to write from prompts but lately I haven't done that either.

[esteefee]

OP, I was in your same boat just a couple of months ago, then I found a supportive Discord writer's group and it made this huge difference for me. Hanging out with other people struggling to write a hundred words? Everyone encouraging each other? And there are sprints so people write for 20 minutes and then chat for 10 minutes. Anyway, I highly recommend. I suddenly started writing again after so much silence in my head:

Just Write discord group.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you me OP? People keep telling me how great I seem doing to be doing nowadays but I'm only awake like 5 hours a day on my days off. :/ And I'm barely lucid during those hours too.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you talked to you doctor about this? I mean you don't have to say you write fic specifically, just, you know, that you used to write stories and now don't have any creative energy, and also probably more importantly about how are so tired all the time or that you can't stay awake, because maybe that could be helped by adjusting the dosage of your meds, or changing them.
I'm saying this just based on my own experience with depression and medication. When I got on my current meds, I started off with a larger dosage, and it was fine at first, but after a while, when I started get out of the deepest hole of the depression, but at the same time I still felt like a zombie, my doctor prescribed me a smaller dosage and that helped.

[(Anonymous)]

All you ever hear is how AMAZING drugs for depression are reassurances that they won't fuck up anything else in your life nor destroy your creativity, and how Van Gogh would have still been alive if he'd had pharmaceuticals and who cares about art anyway...
And yet I'm finally seeing more people like OP admitting that drugs can fuck up your creativity. I'd like to see more people admitting to the horrible side effects and less pushing anyone who's depressed in any way to get hooked on prescription drugs.

[ayumidah]

I'm still struggling with this myself. Hope things get better for you, OP <3

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't advice, but only something that I did personally. When I was on antidepressants, they made me so sleepy. I could sleep entire days away, too, and that caused me to gain a lot of weight, which made me more depressed and unproductive.

I did, after a long dry spell of zero creativity, manage to get myself writing. There was nothing else I wanted to focus on really. It was all crap and I didn't share it with any of my friends for a long time, but it did get me back into the habit of writing, and amusing myself with writing (albeit terrible) fic gave me a reason to stay awake during the day.

Again, this is just what I did personally to fight back against the urge to sleep all day.