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infinite-smile01:batlesbo:squeedge:milkandcoochies:imnotthatfunnyipromise:hollowedskin:merindab:huffingtonpost:This Comedian Nails Why The Mental Illness + Creativity Connection is RidiculousI used to really worry that medications would harm my creativity and it’s part of why I resisted taking them. It hasn’t. If anything it’s allowed me to be more focused and able to complete things. My imagination hasn’t changed just because I’m on anti-depressants.a lot of my family didnt want me to start medications because they thought it would impact my ability to create, and I believed them.Now im getting better and better with my art because i dont have to fight through the brainfog or the constant panic attacks and can dedicate my energy to my work.Antidepressents didnt take my emotions away, they made them easier to handle.This was one of the reasons my mother didn’t put me on meds@hollowedskin that last line you wrote there is so important.Word to this. While my art may have developed as a coping mechanism initially (key words: -may have-), I’m at my most creative and productive when my head isn’t clouded and worn down by mental illness.When I express my woes and people say “HEY AT LEAST YOU’RE CREATIVE” it’s such an insulting oversimplification and misunderstanding of how creativity and mental illness interact. I can’t believe some people actually believe this still. As for me, I create my art out of the JOY I have for life!! And it seems to work quite well :)I had very severe mental health issues (that even led to hospitalization) and took meds, mom hated it and said that I’m ‘not me’ and that it’s the meds and how I used to create a lot. Eventually she convinced me to stop. It was so much worse. Yeah I was sleeping less and my thoughts flowed freely. Way too freely. I could not contain a single thought without an endless strings of thoughts that would eventually lead to a panic attack and did not allow creating.Creating helps, but it shouldn’t cancel out therapy and meds and other things that help. And getting help and functioning better, doesn’t cancel the passion to create.I’m an artistAlways wasThe need increased when things got badWhen things got worse the ability to art stoppedAnd now I’m in a better placeStill an artist Still struggling.But the two aren’t a couple.I know ppl who struggle and don’t artAnd I want to know that if I ever manage to get better it won’t be instead of my art Art is a part of meMental illness is unfortunately a part of meDoesn’t mean that art is a part of mental illness or vice versaI wrote a whole book because of mental illness. -- source link