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GUEST BLOGGER DAVID FARLAND!!!! Writing thru Anxiety and Depression By DAVID FARLAND NY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Part One

The Artistic Mind: Staying Creative through Depression By Da vid (Wolverton) Farland Depression is a common ailment.  At one time or another, the average person suffers through at least one episode of major depression in their lives.   Among writers, according to one article in the Scientific American, rates of depression may be as much as ten times higher than in normal populations, the rate of suicide as much as 18 times higher.   So what can you do about it?  I’m not a doctor.  I’m just a writer who has suffered through depression a number of times in my life.  It runs in my family.  Both my father and my grandfather attempted suicide on multiple occasions. You should know that there are several types of depression, and each needs to be treated differently.  I suffered with bipolar disorder as a teen and into my early twenties.  By my mid-twenties it went away, but in my early thirties I began to suffer from seasonal affective disorder.  I beat that, but in my mid-