Posted by yona on July 23, 2000, at 5:17:06
In reply to Re: An interesting take on depression and creativi, posted by dj on July 19, 2000, at 23:06:14
very interesting post. thanks much. i have had to negotiate my 'artist personality' without any understanding of it for most of my life. my BIG NEED to have time for introspection (and lots of it) has made me seem an 'impenatrable loner' to some. for me, stumbling upon a meaningless life at an early age induced a life long search for meaning. in some ways i can read that to mean that my 'creative personality' needs all those symphtoms of a depressed personality (ie: insominia, social anziety, dissassociation from 'regular life stuff', etc) in order to transform them into something meaningful.
..hope i didn't botch this post too bad for basically i have seen/experienced/tried to understand the link between creativity and depression for quite some time and still don't understand it much...
yona
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