[ SECRET POST #1818 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1818 ⌋


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Comments

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

You might be getting better, but for now, you're still depressed, and tricking you into thinking you're losing your creativity is one of the nasty, evil weasel ways your depression is trying to beat you.

Give it some time. Healing drains a lot of your creative energy. Physically sick people lie in bed all day, and mentally ill people often also find themselves 'lying in bed'. It's a feature, not a bug.

I have been there, and I know how frustrating it is, but just bear with it and when writing is possible, it'll happen. We have this romantic image of the writer fuelled by their sadness, but the truth is that the majority of creatives are middle-class, healthy people without problems getting in the way of them expending free time on creative work. Maslow's heirarchy of needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs) is a real thing, and right now, you're concentrating on lower tiers.


Hang in there. ♥

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

This. And the advice about sitting down and freewriting (although maybe not right away.) Writing isn't always about inspiration, and healing isn't always about being better right this minute.

[mpinsky.livejournal.com]

+1

[solarbird]

Another thing that can happen, OP, is that once you no longer have to Do Something to distract yourself, once you no longer have that particular horrible but strikingly effective motivator^*, it can take a long time to find new motivations for things.

It may also be that your art changes. I was a visual artist and sculptor (examples) before; now I'm a musician (examples, including a boatload of videos from my last tour) and I'm doing it for totally different reasons. And I'm a lot happier with my art. A lot happier.

But that took a couple of years or being idle, honestly. Creatively idle, I mean. I just had nothin'. It wasn't happening. And it took a couple of years to shake itself and sort itself out.

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^*: Whatever it might be; for me, this wasn't actually depression, but I'll keep details to myself for personal reasons.