No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.
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I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers.
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.
If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.
Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de facto therapeutic. But really, one writes to write.
I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.
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