Six Years Already...

Depression...

©Janie Michaud 2008

Thinking Out Loud

Things are brewing...

I am ready for a change

But so scared at the same time.

To some, moving away to another city,

another province,

even another country

takes no more time thinking about

than I, trying to choose a detergent at the supermarket.

Where do we draw the line

between an impulse decision

and wasting an opportunity?

The Storm

Something I thought of.

In the middle of an electrical storm.

The panorama was beautiful and inspiring.

Meaning...

Someone can be depressed and not realize it.

Being so focused on what has to be done

that we become oblivious to ourselves and our surroundings.

It is still a taboo subject in our society.

Many are misinformed or simply don't understand. :(

Om

I may be talking out of my *beep*

But who cares... I like the doodle. :P

Breathe...

Hypergraphia

Oh yeah, it's an actual medical term!

It can be explained as followed:

The driving compulsion and overwhelming urge to write/create.

The opposite of writer's block.

Described as a temporal lobe epilepsy.

Also known as the midnight disease.

From what I have read and can understand,

many artists in history were affected by it

and it's opposite effect:

hypographia, aka the writer's block.

Sylvia Plath. Stephen King. Vincent Van Gogh.

Byron. Dante. Molière. Edgar Allen Poe.

People filling page after page of writing, doodling, music.

Unable to slow down their minds.

Not wanting to forget a thing.

Is it a gift or a curse?

To a perfectionist like me,

it could feel like a curse.

The feeling of writing nothing but nonsense.

Thinking it's worthless.

...

Ok, maybe I don't have Hypergraphia

But I'm still addicted to notebooks!

I can't leave home without one.

There's one my bedside table,

One on my desk...

Dozens of pens... EVERYWHERE!

>_<;

Then again, it's better to be inspired...

than to be left empty.