I 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 clicked sound expecting some tumblr shit where there’s some heavy metal playing or something, but instead it was the sounds of its little hooves clapping against the wet sand as a bird gently cried in the distance and that’s so great.
