Writer's Block + Depression?

[My I]

Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.

Get enthusiastic about your anger. Hell, write about it and your writer's block disappears.

 

[Hypoxia]

Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.

Get enthusiastic about your anger. Hell, write about it and your writer's block disappears.

But don't get enthusiastic about depression. That can lead to jumping off a tall bridge.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

So, I'll be honest. I was mostly writing to make exist what doesn't. Creative. Different. Unique things. Things for people who can't find what they like. And I also write erotica as a "sharpening tool" for actual writing. Same for art.

I left another site because I noticed a trend. No matter how well or beautifully or engaging someone wrote or painted anything, it would never get noticed or accepted or even get decent feedback or constructive criticism unless it fit a trend. And any ol' shit that fit the trend shot to the top. So, you learned it doesn't matter if you are Michelangelo or Martha's 4 year old son, if you paint or write the "trend" you succeed, get feedback, told it's good, end. It was depressing and disgusting.

So I came here hoping I'd find actually a bigger myriad of people for more friends, feedback, and to grow as an artist. Where my only path to feedback and development is not just doing a trend. But I sort of noticed a few things here too. I haven't been here long enough to definitely say so for sure, and I maybe am jumping the gun and prejudging. I love the older crowd, the wider groups. But I notice everything that's m/fffffffffffff, country boy, cowgirl, 'Merica base subject, and incest is the simple recipe to instant success. Anything else is crap.

I can't do weeaboo love cringe, and I just can't do country cowboy soldier stuff either. Not that I won't, and I'm not saying I dislike it. It's just...not in me. I can't do it. I fail if I try. I'm sorry if I offended anybody. I just hope I can find some friends or fellow authors to brainstorm with.

I'm at the end of a long life in which I collided with many of the great truths. The greatest of them is this: Regardless of how you are most people are determined to hate your guts. Pleasing anyone is a fools errand and futile. The AH is the same as anywhere. When your wares differ from others they think youre a moron, if your wares are similar to others they swear youre a thief.

 

[Morwen]

Everyone gets down. The key is to channel those highs into good prose. erotic or not.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Everyone gets down. The key is to channel those highs into good prose. erotic or not.

The lows as well. You can channel those lows into writing sadness and tears along with the erotic. The toughie about that is the energy to write but if you want to write, you will.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Depression is just anger without enthusiasm.

Being a psychologist I see depression different from most people, and I have a fix for it.

Most of us devoutly believe all kinds of crazy nonsense we embrace as Gospel. I call these beliefs UNICORN FARTS.

But unicorn farts got no utility, they just feel divine but do nothing except give the believer a short buzz that doesn't last.

And when the buzz fades away to nuthin we become frustrated and enraged. But no one stays mad for long, and the mad teams up with the frustration to really piss in your punch bowl with depression.

The way out of it is simple. Do what always brings you joy. Joy is like depression in reverse. It takes a little while to get yourself inflated again. In therapy the real work is getting you up off your ass to so something you normally enjoy.

 

[weftandwarp]

You know, so many people have so many ideas about depression. It isn't easy. I think every one who has it has their unique key to it. Some times they simply can't find the bloody key. I have had a lot of grief and depression, since my wife killed our children. I can't find the bloody key. But some how I've managed. What has been useful is working on things to get better. I love to be challenged. One of my challenges is writing good stories- some times my depression and other related things come out on top. I never know until well after I regard the story as finished. I can't write about me- not yet. To challenge my self I've also resigned my old job and taken on a farm. The important thing is to be busy and I now have a field to be able to think with in that is safe. It is now just a year ago my friend suicided. I miss him hugely. The bottom fell out of his world and he didn't know how to ask for help. I was hurt he didn't ask me. I was angry I didn't see it for my self. Depression is a problem so difficult to understand. Some times there is nothingness, other times its a phrase that torments over and over and other times it screams. I hate them all. But I'm always wanting to write because one day I'd like to figure out the answers and tell the world. I love challenges.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I cant name one lay person competent to do brain surgery, but every asshead in the world is a depression expert. I sob when I think of all the years and money I spent in college. Know it all asshead is all it takes.

 

[rgraham666]

I have no idea why my post ended up on this thread. Sorry.

 

[sr71plt]

I have no idea why my post ended up on this thread. Sorry.

But does it depress you that it did?

 

[TxRad]

But does it depress you that it did?

The only thing I've seen depressing about this thread is JBJ's psycobabble bullshit.

 

[Hypoxia]

The only thing I've seen depressing about this thread is JBJ's psycobabble bullshit.

IGNORE is your friend.

Meanwhile: Depression? Repression? Oppression? Recession? Intercession? Accession? Digression? Suppression? Transgression? Progression? Obsession? What what affects your writer's block? Expression? Confession?

 

[sr71plt]

IGNORE is your friend.

So is divine retribution.

 

[Morwen]

I have had a lot of grief and depression, since my wife killed our children.

Are you serious? I'm sorry if that's what happened, I can't even imagine such a hell.

 

[SamScribble]

Even James says something half sensible sometimes. Why don't we have a week of not automatically dismissing everything he says? Maybe it will encourage him to think before he presses 'post'. And, no. I'm not his long-lost cousin.

 

[sr71plt]

Even James says something half sensible sometimes. Why don't we have a week of not automatically dismissing everything he says? Maybe it will encourage him to think before he presses 'post'. And, no. I'm not his long-lost cousin.

Who dismisses everything he says? Everyone just leaves him alone more of the time than he does for some others. I've even posted agreement with posts of his from time to time. Please don't make more of it than is there. In nearly every case he's provoked (purposely) whatever came back at him and more times than not, it's just left unanswered. I've seen three of his threads in the last week with my name in the head that I haven't even opened and they've been erased by the moderator.

 

[ksmith475]

So, I didn't read any further than the first post of ur thread, as u will figure out as I ask the next question, what is your kink?