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Mental Health Support

libodem

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2. Hope you feel better soon

Reply to Neoma (Original post)

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 03:39 PM

Apr 2013

Do you ever think that creativity and that surge of energy one has on the higher end of bipolar, kind of go together? I'm hoping you get your mojo back. I just have chronic depression without the opposing mood. All my friends and family really miss the manic phase, when it is drugged out of them.

Hope I'm making sense? I'm trying to be empathetic but maybe I'm missing the mark?

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When I'm depressed, the first thing that goes is my creativity. [View all] Neoma Apr 2013 OP

Sucks it out of you libodem Apr 2013 #1

Hope you feel better soon libodem Apr 2013 #2

Being bipolar has a direct link to creativity from what I can tell. Neoma Apr 2013 #5

Being sensitive has it's down side libodem Apr 2013 #7

I hear you, Neoma LiberalEsto Apr 2013 #3

Do you feel blocked like you're repeating the same work ? olddots Apr 2013 #4

Over time my drawings took hours to do. Neoma Apr 2013 #6

For me what goes is drive. I can still think up lots of creative ideas but... Locut0s May 2013 #8