Comments on: creativity, oppression and depression http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/ making lives better, making better lives Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Breaking our Silence. Setting us Free. | Mental Health Camp http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-720312 Breaking our Silence. Setting us Free. | Mental Health Camp Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:05:31 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-720312 [...] hiding, pretending – they are often involved in suppression, oppression, repression; it’s no pun to observe that these words are intricately related to [...] [...] hiding, pretending – they are often involved in suppression, oppression, repression; it’s no pun to observe that these words are intricately related to [...]

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]]> By: digging for a voice: reflections http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-660893 digging for a voice: reflections Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:05:16 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-660893 [...] and sometimes we can speak and work together, like with catatonic kid , jeremy and john. [...] [...] and sometimes we can speak and work together, like with catatonic kid , jeremy and john. [...]

]]> By: creativity boost http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-616470 creativity boost Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:21:06 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-616470 Creativity is very cathartic and can really help your overall health. I recommend that every person has a creative outlet of some sort. Creativity is very cathartic and can really help your overall health. I recommend that every person has a creative outlet of some sort.

]]> By: B. Rene Williams http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-542974 B. Rene Williams Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:02:26 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-542974 Depression should never stand in the way of creative goals, no matter how powerful it seems. It is the hardest thing - and yet the easiest thing in the world - to explain why this should be the case: as creative beings our purpose must necessarily be to pass our creativity down to the next generation. Anything that stands in the way of that obligation must be inherently wrong. Depression makes us weak - it breaks down our creative juices. That's how we can see through its deception - how we can think we deserve it in the midst of it being one of the most wrong things that can be visited upon us. <em>B. Rene Williams's last blog post..<a href='http://www.powerwealthcreation.com/domain-sales.html'>Sep 19, Domain Sales by Power Wealth Creation</a></em> Depression should never stand in the way of creative goals, no matter how powerful it seems.

It is the hardest thing – and yet the easiest thing in the world – to explain why this should be the case: as creative beings our purpose must necessarily be to pass our creativity down to the next generation. Anything that stands in the way of that obligation must be inherently wrong.

Depression makes us weak – it breaks down our creative juices. That’s how we can see through its deception – how we can think we deserve it in the midst of it being one of the most wrong things that can be visited upon us.

B. Rene Williams’s last blog post..Sep 19, Domain Sales by Power Wealth Creation

]]> By: Sean http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-525256 Sean Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:09:09 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-525256 It's an interesting exercise to think about the things, situations and thoughts that can lead to depression. Sometimes just by knowing what triggers something we can find a way out. Our lives always leave clues for us to experience the best...we just have to recognize the clues before they dissapear. It’s an interesting exercise to think about the things, situations and thoughts that can lead to depression.

Sometimes just by knowing what triggers something we can find a way out.

Our lives always leave clues for us to experience the best…we just have to recognize the clues before they dissapear.

]]> By: John D http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-486297 John D Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:48:57 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-486297 Thank you for the quote - I'm always interested in what exactly draws someone's attention in a post. Those are wonderful associations that happen to work for me as well. I certainly feel the link between depression and suppression, something that I still do to myself. Blues, especially jazz and John Coltrane had an enormous impact on me, but I must say I'm afraid to listen to much of that now. It seems to play into a tendency to dwell in my own darkness too much - not fair to the music - but I'm constantly playing those compositions in my head, free of the moodiness. Creativity and cancer are linked in my life quite directly -in fact, it was my rebellion against giving in to cancer when depressed that started me going in recovery. Lastly, working with oppressed communities is something I did for a fifteen years or so. I'm not quite sure what all that means, but we happen to link a lot of things together in similar ways. John <em>John D's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/storiedmind/~3/327600785/spiritual-paths-to-healing-3'>Spiritual Paths to Healing - 3</a></em> Thank you for the quote – I’m always interested in what exactly draws someone’s attention in a post. Those are wonderful associations that happen to work for me as well. I certainly feel the link between depression and suppression, something that I still do to myself. Blues, especially jazz and John Coltrane had an enormous impact on me, but I must say I’m afraid to listen to much of that now. It seems to play into a tendency to dwell in my own darkness too much – not fair to the music – but I’m constantly playing those compositions in my head, free of the moodiness. Creativity and cancer are linked in my life quite directly -in fact, it was my rebellion against giving in to cancer when depressed that started me going in recovery. Lastly, working with oppressed communities is something I did for a fifteen years or so. I’m not quite sure what all that means, but we happen to link a lot of things together in similar ways.

John

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]]> By: Alexander M Zoltai http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-486012 Alexander M Zoltai Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:31:01 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-486012 "...there’s little correlation between being an artist and suffering from cancer." Depends on the severity of the creativity, eh? My recent and damnably lingering passage through the oppression of multiple medical drugs has sharpened my creativity; and, the oppression has enabled a submission to my Faith that I had never suspected I was capable of... (that's a perfectly permissible preposition...) <em>Alexander M Zoltai's last blog post..<a href='http://amzuri.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/food-health-and-common-sense/'>Food, Health, and Common Sense</a></em> “…there’s little correlation between being an artist and suffering from cancer.”

Depends on the severity of the creativity, eh?

My recent and damnably lingering passage through the oppression of multiple medical drugs has sharpened my creativity; and, the oppression has enabled a submission to my Faith that I had never suspected I was capable of… (that’s a perfectly permissible preposition…)

Alexander M Zoltai’s last blog post..Food, Health, and Common Sense

]]> By: isabella mori http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-485990 isabella mori Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:52:23 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-485990 i would assume it's random, in the sense that if you look at occupations, i would imagine that there's little correlation between being an artist and suffering from cancer. it just so happens that each and every one of the people i know who are dealing with it are also very creative people. and certainly one could experience cancer as a form of oppression, and perhaps see creative acts as ways of escaping the feeling of oppression? again, just thinking out loud here. sometimes that's risky on a blog, i know ... i would assume it’s random, in the sense that if you look at occupations, i would imagine that there’s little correlation between being an artist and suffering from cancer.

it just so happens that each and every one of the people i know who are dealing with it are also very creative people.

and certainly one could experience cancer as a form of oppression, and perhaps see creative acts as ways of escaping the feeling of oppression?

again, just thinking out loud here. sometimes that’s risky on a blog, i know …

]]> By: therapydoc http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-485865 therapydoc Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:05:16 +0000 http://www.moritherapy.org/article/creativity-oppression-and-depression/#comment-485865 Gosh, I hope that's a random association, creativity and CA <em>therapydoc's last blog post..<a href='http://everyoneneedstherapy.blogspot.com/2008/07/that-catastrophic-expectation-cut-offs.html'>That Catastrophic Expectation: Cut-offs</a></em> Gosh, I hope that’s a random association, creativity and CA

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