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Locut0s

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

Wed May 15, 2013, 09:25 PM

May 2013

My drive to do any of them goes completely out the window. There are at least 10 things I know I should be doing right now that would help me but I just don't care enough about my life to do any of them. For example my interests are science and computers. I've been telling myself for I don't know how long to learn to use Linux, program in C++ now that I know C, read up on a bunch of back issues of Scientific American that I have pilling up, teach myself some more complex Physic and Math, and on and on. These are all things that would greatly interest me at other times. But when I'm depressed like I have been for years I just say, yup looks interesting, but I just don't have the mental energy. Oh well, I'll just sleep instead and maybe my life will end peacefully.

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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