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Published July 16, 2016 26 Comments

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  1. Günter HemdwegerGünter Hemdweger says

    July 16, 2016 at 5:22 am

    i ain’t creative. i can only deliver quite decent basslines

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  2. Laura P. Schulman, MD, MA says

    July 16, 2016 at 6:01 am

    Having been born into a family of artists and musicians, all of whom had dark and brooding personalities, I grew up making art, playing music, and thinking that my own darkness was “the artist’s temperament,” something that simply comes with the territory. I found myself frequently paralyzed by what I now know to be crippling depressions. I watched my father’s students die of their untreated mental illnesses, as they resisted treatment thinking it would squash their creativity….but instead, suicide squashed it for good. When I was kind of accidentally diagnosed with depression, I didn’t believe it. I was sure the clinic just didn’t understand artists. We have to be dark and brooding, or we’ll never make good art….right?

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  3. Jingles says

    July 16, 2016 at 6:27 am

    Don’t they know, all the best creatives are actually bipolar.

    No, but seriously, when the hell do I get my manic creative streak? I’d like to stop feeling paralyzed at the mere thought of picking up a pencil.

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  4. Becci says

    July 16, 2016 at 6:35 am

    As an artist, this is so true…and so frustrating. Great comic as usual.

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  5. Megan says

    July 16, 2016 at 6:46 am

    YES

    my gosh, I always read in books or see in movies artists who throw away their antidepressants because they “take away my creative drive.” Like, who are these people and how do they function creatively while depressed? Because when I’m depressed I can barely write my own name

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  6. Megan says

    July 16, 2016 at 6:55 am

    Also I just realized her painting is the smile everybody always hides behind, so either she’s painting about faking or faking about painting. (she said as an english major, reading too much into everything)

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  7. Anne AndresAnne Andres says

    July 16, 2016 at 9:18 am

    Given that I write a webcomic that is literally based on being hurt, depressed, and scared, this is actually not true for me! So.. yay for drawing on life experience?

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    • Stress Management TechniquesStress Management Techniques says

      July 17, 2016 at 8:30 am

      Yeah Amazing comment

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  8. Reina MaxineReina Maxine says

    July 16, 2016 at 10:59 am

    Depression is why I stopped doing all the creative stuff I used to enjoy.

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  9. Peter Watson says

    July 16, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Oh God, this one is fucking spot on. My whole fucking life has gone down that black hole. Someone tells me how funny something I wrote in an email was and they say “You missed your calling!” and I think I know I missed my fucking calling! I know, I know, I know, God damn it. I know that better than anyone.

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  10. Kris DeadlinerKris Deadliner says

    July 16, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    Every time I see one of these comix, it’s like a punch to the center of the chest. Christ this shit is accurate.

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  11. Esmerelda BohèmeEsmerelda Bohème says

    July 16, 2016 at 4:45 pm

    Depression drains your energy. You have nothing left for creativity.

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    • Stress Management TechniquesStress Management Techniques says

      July 17, 2016 at 8:30 am

      totally

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    • Agarax says

      July 18, 2016 at 11:20 pm

      Along with your feelings, your thoughts, your memories, your volition, your abilities, your future… A black hole is a good analogy for depression. The abyss is so vast and dark and empty, it seems nothing can escape. It can be a terrible strain to feel outwardly alive but completely empty within.

      Fortunately I was given an SSRI that effectively plugged the black hole. Over the course of a year I learned to recognize when my thoughts were tending toward it, and to direct them on safer paths, until I was ready to try living without the drug. For over twenty years I have lived with that hole in my mind, but now I know how to avoid it.

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  12. Jared StudelskaJared Studelska says

    July 16, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    http://www.whompcomic.com/comics/2013-03-11-Art-Attack.jpg

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    • Stress Management TechniquesStress Management Techniques says

      July 17, 2016 at 8:30 am

      Anyone else agree?

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  13. Jenn says

    July 16, 2016 at 10:44 pm

    About the only creative thing that’s been sticking to me is crocheting big 12 point star blankets, because I can work out my anxiety with each loop and knot. Otherwise.. I’m only mildly decent at making a baseline…

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  14. Opus the Poet says

    July 17, 2016 at 3:35 am

    Myths and stereotypes exist because there is truth in them. Both tropes are true, sometimes for the same people at different times.

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  15. Stress Management TechniquesStress Management Techniques says

    July 17, 2016 at 8:30 am

    Stuff about Anxiety are why everyone likes your page

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  16. Virginia says

    July 21, 2016 at 1:36 am

    Actually I am super creative. It’s just that my ideas hardly ever get past the drawing board or planning stage.

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  17. afodendhal says

    July 28, 2016 at 6:52 pm

    Yep. Nailed it.

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  18. RB says

    August 9, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    I miss writing so much.

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  19. XaurreauX says

    August 10, 2016 at 2:10 am

    I can’t even deliver decent bass lines.

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  20. Mar Viktor says

    August 13, 2016 at 7:56 am

    can’t remember my last painting

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  21. Fixie says

    October 12, 2016 at 2:30 am

    The insults I make up when someone calls me lazy are creative.

    “You sad, broken elephant. Go mess with someone your size.” -said to a bully

    “Shame on you. If this were a village, we would kick you out.” -said to a family member

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  22. Sometimes the bear says

    March 27, 2017 at 4:48 am

    Depression doesn’t make me special – it erases my ability to express anything special about myself. Knowing what I’m capable of when I’m not depressed just cranks up the gravitational field.

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