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Neoma

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5. Being bipolar has a direct link to creativity from what I can tell.

Mon Apr 29, 2013, 05:44 PM

Apr 2013

But I can be creative when I'm content. Looking back, I had manic attacks as a kid as well, but we called them "sugar rushes."

The main thing is I don't see the point in life, or even in expressing myself when I'm depressed. I don't see the point since everything else is shit anyways I guess. Not that it's my life that's shit at the moment. (Though I've been through too much for someone my age and there's good reasons I was triggered into bipolar.) It's more like all the information I process about environmental destruction, or our political policies... I know too much and it hurts me so. But you can't tell me to not know this stuff...

Some of this might change once college rolls around. Meet new people and get a good social life going again. That helps immensely.

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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