Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
Hello,all.
Do any of you find that anxiety,depression,and OCD sap your creativity? i have had a novel in my head for years now,years.i haven't even finished my outline because i just don't know yet what happens in the end.But my characters are clear,and they have been screaming at me to be let out of my head and onto the page.
How do i get past the mental paralysis to access my creativity?
This is real goal of mine,a dream,i can't stand myself for not working on it.
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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Years ago, I won a mirrored armoire from my job. It's in my bedroom but I rarely stand in front of it. Yesterday, I had to have a dexascan done so I had to change into a gown. There was a full length mirror in the changing room. I'm aware that I gained 5 to 7 pounds over the last year from cheating on Keto but I didn't know what it looked like. It was a reality check.
Inside my own skin, I feel like my mental health condition enhances my creativity mightily. My condition makes it so that I don't get a choice in whether of not to live creatively. "Normal" doesn't work for me, no matter how hard I try.
Alas, it appears there is more skill than creative glamour in the tedium between creative conception and a published novel on a bookshelf that sells itself without the additional tedium of promotion tours, etc. I believe I am far more lacking in skill than creative drive.
The hurdle I'm currently trying to jump in that process is plying ass to chair for 8 hours a day, every day. It ain't gonna happen until I work the process. Emphasis on "work." Classes. . . Writer workshops. . . Etc., etc. Each creative flair requires hours of hard work to shape into something more substantial than the puppet shows in my head.
So, create the parts you can in words. Just a paragraph each day - like a journal.
Viewing it and writing it are different processes.
Best wishes as you find your way to writing out the story.
It is odd,i feel inspired,but not enough to do anything about it.
Back to my outline i guess....
That is the key.
I have been learning art and often my mental state isn't allowing me to get into the right mood to be creative. However, if I find time to be alone and have some music going in the background... the 'thinking' part of my brain eases off of its grip on my nerves and the creative side is allowed to flow.
Funny thing is... my favorite music is heavy metal. But it works.