Creativity and Depression
Filed in archive Mind Games by Florence Cardinal on May 09, 2007

I'm not the only one who found relief from mental anguish in creativity. A veteran, John Mulligan, has found an excellent technique for handling post traumatic stress. Mulligan is a Vietnam veteran, and, in his book, The Shopping Cart Soldiers, he has poured all the horror, the anger, and the nightmares of his Vietnam experience onto the printed page.
So, take pen or brush in hand, let your fingers do the talking on the keyboard of your computer, or just talk to someone. John Mulligan has not only penned a great autobiographical novel, he has given every one of us who struggles with nightmares, with grief, with worry or stress, a plan to follow. Don't bottle it up. Don't live with the horror inside you. Get it out, and exit whistling.
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