Posted by Kev on January 31, 2000, at 12:21:00
In reply to Re: artists and depression (discussion fodder), posted by Kim on January 31, 2000, at 1:19:24
> As my depression deepens, I find myself less able to ACT on my creative impulses. I lie in bed all day and still THINK about the projects I want to do--I've even planned some of them (in my head) down to tiny details. But I have no energy to fulfill them.
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> But since I no longer express my art, my ideas are becoming fewer and further between. Maybe I should write them down--I wonder if they'll sound as good if/when I stop falling down the black hole?
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> As for intelligence, my observation has been that genuinely "perky" people usually are not particularly bright.***If you are having ideas for projects which seem to be good, you should DEFINITELY write them down for future reference when you're feeling good enough to actually try to carry them out. That way, you've already got half the battle accomplished. Don't worry- if the ideas really do suck, the only thing you'll have wasted is paper and ink, but if the ideas WERE good and you end up forgetting what they are, it will prove to be a royal pain to reconstruct them (insofar as this is possible at all). Last summer, I came up with ton of ideas, fragments, and leads towards my Ph.D project, but in my despondency didn't write them down; I am seriously starting to regret it.
-Kev
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