Getting older and working in design
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- dee-dubs0
Another interesting thing I'm noticing from a lot of these replies is many references to darks times and/or battling depression.
I remember once reading somewhere (around the time Robin Williams committed suicide and there were many articles on mental issues) that "creative" types are much more susceptible to this kind of mental health issue due to introspective thinking and thought patterns associated with being creative.
"Psychologists have been fascinated by the potential link for decades. The earliest and most rudimentary studies examined eminent people across fields including literature and the arts.
These studies found that creatives had an unusually high number of mood disorders. Charles Dickens, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill all appeared to suffer from clinical depression. So too did Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf. Sylvia Plath famously took her own life by sticking her head in an oven while her two children slept."taken from :
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/2…Apologies for kinda going off topic as it is not career related but also seems relevant. Seems we are have picked a tricky career path to maintain over long period of time and we are also likely to really be mentally affected by it too.
- all creative fields suffer from this - look at music. self medicating, self destructive behaviour is rife...fadein11
- no offense but this is v.old news.fadein11
- still in topic with the discussionBen99
- is it the career choice that preceeds this? or is it an internal malaise that leads someone to be creative?monNom
- creative brains have a tendency to be v.introspective / reflective / over analytical - which leads to a propensity towards depression / self destructivefadein11
- behaviour. Creative brains end up in creative fields (obviously).fadein11
- consider diet, lifestyle, mostly.yurimon