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Apr. 23rd, 2014 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
violsvaPeople keep saying there’s a link between creativity and depression. And there is. Specifically, you’re MORE creative when you’re LESS depressed.
I know that when you have a mental illness you want to feel like there’s an upside. But the whole point of depression is that there isn’t one. It sucks. Maybe there is a link otherwise, maybe people who have been depressed but aren’t now are more creative than other people’s baseline. I don’t know. Studies are inconclusive. But being actually in a state of depression right now means being less creative than you could be.
If you are creative when depressed, you will be so much more creative when not depressed. You rock for being able to overcome the ‘hating yourself and everything you do’ part of this illness. But imagine not having to overcome that. Because the drugs or therapy techniques are overcoming it for you so you actually have time to get shit done.
I know that when you have a mental illness you want to feel like there’s an upside. But the whole point of depression is that there isn’t one. It sucks. Maybe there is a link otherwise, maybe people who have been depressed but aren’t now are more creative than other people’s baseline. I don’t know. Studies are inconclusive. But being actually in a state of depression right now means being less creative than you could be.
If you are creative when depressed, you will be so much more creative when not depressed. You rock for being able to overcome the ‘hating yourself and everything you do’ part of this illness. But imagine not having to overcome that. Because the drugs or therapy techniques are overcoming it for you so you actually have time to get shit done.