Comments on: Five Year Cycle – Part Two http://realmental.org/archives/1160 RealMental is a safe community where you can share and learn about mental health and everything that goes along with it. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:50:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Muriel http://realmental.org/archives/1160/comment-page-1#comment-8272 Muriel Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:43:45 +0000 http://realmental.org/?p=1160#comment-8272 I actually use quite a bit of my experience in my writing. It's pretty tough, I'm working on a novel which incorporates a lot of real situations I went through as a kid, and every time I write a flashback scene it takes me a couple of months and some major anxiety attacks to cope with getting it on the page. I'm a writer, so it's rough for me to deal with having to take two or three months to produce 1-2 thousand words when I'm used to churning out 3 to 5 thousand per day in my professional life... But, in the end it's really good for me, as I think that talking about it helps me process it and heal. I don't think the medication ever takes anything completely away, it just makes it tolerable so you can live a mostly normal life. I actually use quite a bit of my experience in my writing. It’s pretty tough, I’m working on a novel which incorporates a lot of real situations I went through as a kid, and every time I write a flashback scene it takes me a couple of months and some major anxiety attacks to cope with getting it on the page.

I’m a writer, so it’s rough for me to deal with having to take two or three months to produce 1-2 thousand words when I’m used to churning out 3 to 5 thousand per day in my professional life…

But, in the end it’s really good for me, as I think that talking about it helps me process it and heal.

I don’t think the medication ever takes anything completely away, it just makes it tolerable so you can live a mostly normal life.

]]> By: Tom http://realmental.org/archives/1160/comment-page-1#comment-8265 Tom Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:44:56 +0000 http://realmental.org/?p=1160#comment-8265 Wow! I am empathize with your situation. I've been in a similar place myself. It's really nice when you can sit down and reflect and write about it. Have you revisited any of those dark places since or has the medicine kept them away? Wow! I am empathize with your situation. I’ve been in a similar place myself. It’s really nice when you can sit down and reflect and write about it. Have you revisited any of those dark places since or has the medicine kept them away?

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