Writing poetry helps one writer cope with depression and anxiety.
Here, he explores any links between creativity and mental health.
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Through it all, poetry has moved closer and closer to the center of my life.
And, it seems Im not alone in having found it as an outlet during this time.
Amid lockdown,poetry writing and readingwere on the rise.
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Poet LaureateJoy Harjo toldUSA Todayin February 2021.
Thats what often emerges from the ruins.
You see little plants like after a fire…coming up from the char.
It explores how depression, anxiety, and grief intersect with creativity, joy, and love.
Am I creative, at least in part,becauseI live with anxiety and depression?
Do I somehow rely on my struggles to create art?
And how does effectively coping with my mental health issues impact my writing, for better or worse?
She zeroes in on common symptoms of some of those mental health conditions.
Also, a disinhibited racing or wandering mind can be an opportunity for a flow of ideas.
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Those ideas can be channeled in creative ways.
Research backs up a positive correlation between howcreative activitiescan benefitmental and emotional well-being.
At the same time, writing poetry helps me cope with anxiety and depression.
At the same time, writing poetry helps me cope with anxiety and depression.
While I sometimes have trouble finding joy in my life, I often create joy on the page.
These themes manifest in both the process and product of my work.
My writing also requires feelings of lightness, levity, balance, and ease.
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