We are wounded again in the same place. This doesn't turn us into victims. Rather, we are people in search of a transformation of the real.
The creative capacity to do this is extraordinary. Art isn't a surface activity. It comes from a deep place, and it meets the wound we each carry.
Although I knew I had plenty of personal failings, and that my mental states were unreliable, I also knew that I could do the work.
I have never taken antidepressants because I couldn't face the flatness.
I preferred the highs and the crashes, even though it meant the rages and the withdrawals, and anyway, I'd rather have my own suffering than someone else's solution.
The creative capacity to do this is extraordinary. Art isn't a surface activity. It comes from a deep place, and it meets the wound we each carry.
Although I knew I had plenty of personal failings, and that my mental states were unreliable, I also knew that I could do the work.
I have never taken antidepressants because I couldn't face the flatness.
I preferred the highs and the crashes, even though it meant the rages and the withdrawals, and anyway, I'd rather have my own suffering than someone else's solution.
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