Michelle Stafford
I love words and the challenge of articulation
I suspect that this is a struggle many creatives have had — how do you balance the precarious need to avoid killing yourself while also feeling intensely enough to render the world as art, which implicitly makes you happy and drives you deeper into a spiral of all-consuming self-doubt and mental cannabalism?
Teach Me How To Feel
Abby Norman
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How do we indeed?
My few months only experience of taking antidepressants probably doesn’t qualify me to talk about it. What I will say is that the sole benefit was the safety blanket feeling that stopped the descent from being fatal.
I’m very thankful that I had the luxury of choosing not to use that safety and know that I would (mostly) be ok. I realise that many can’t risk the consequences of not taking them.
I do know that for me personally I would not willingly sacrifice the gamut of emotions if I had to take them permanently.
