Posted by kid_A on January 21, 2002, at 12:23:30
In reply to Art therapy, posted by Gracie2 on January 19, 2002, at 22:31:18
I am the exact opposite.... between the time of 1992 and 2000 i had been writing in small surges the work of which i grouped by the year(s) in which they were written...Probably in 1996 or so, I had a breakthrough for myself in writing and wrote a great deal than I had before, but after this period my writing became more and more sporadic until eventually I was just re-editing the same poem over and over...
A few months after I started my meds I was writing again, although this time my writing had improved a great deal, due to external influences and the idea that somehow, through the personalisation of my work, I could manage the things that haunted me most. Writing about it somehow places it in a space that I can grasp, and the more I write the more that I expose my true self, at least as far as my writing is concerned...
I havent seen my shrink in a good few months, and if I didn't write, I don't know where I would put all these emotions, other than of course this board... Writing I think is one of the things that keeps me alive...
E.M. Cioran said that every book is a postponed suicide; having written a book dealing with his own despair and eventual triumph of sorts over it... I don't know if every poem is a postponed suicide, but I know that each one brings me closer and closer to understanding myself, and for me, thats what matters most.
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