Why is depression inhibiting an ability to make art ?

People suffering from depression, are concentrated on subject of their sadness.  It  prevents to think about creation. This is regarding healthy people. People with clinical depression have chemical disbalance and depend of biochemical processes of their brain.  All creative people know, that creation needs concentration and work for an embodiment of ideas. Depression is  brain disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life. All creative people know, that creation needs a concentration and precise and persistent work for an embodiment of ideas

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Art and Life: Escape to Another Reality

Art and Life: Escape to Another Reality: I can not imagine my life without art. For me art is the door from a dark gloomy room into the bright world of unexpected events. This is t...

Escape to Another Reality

I can not imagine my life without art. For me art is the door from a dark gloomy room into the bright world of unexpected events. This is the escape of mind and soul in a different reality from the gray boring routine and predictable events which fill out with the sadness all the space around. Art is the Escape for an artist who creates his own world different from reality. I feel like a refugee whenever I take the brushes and start doing my paintings. The creative process allows me to escape from the real world into another world, a world of fantasy and a completely different condition of meditation. I feel the freedom that I do not have in the real world.

Why do we need learn Art ?

A sense of aesthetics and harmony are gifted to human by nature in our genes in varying levels for everyone. Beauty and harmony attract us since childhood. Ugliness is unpleasant. Harmony and aesthetics are important in art, but art includes many other things else, such as philosophy, personal experience. Art is not only about the feelings and self-expression of an artist or about beautiful spots and landscapes on the walls. Art can have a lot of content, which can cover a wide field of ideas and thoughts. Sometimes art can be inexplicable and subconsciously affect the audience.

So why we need to study art? Music, art, theater and ballet help develop our soul. A person who has learned art has a deeper understanding of the world and people

What is connection between art and depression ?

I was a member of the Society of Art History during studying at university. . Members of the group were students who had an aim in the future to choose a profession in the field of art history. Students of Medical Institute Psychiatry Faculty offered to make a joint presentation about Art and mental illness. I prepared a report " Mental illness and special signs of disease manifestations in art". Preparing the report, I studied a lot of material about mental illness and I can say the following: it is necessary to distinguish between depression as a disease and as a mood.

We're not psychiatrists, but we use the word depression, when we talk about a temporary state of frustration of a healthy person. In fact, depression as a disease has the characteristics of mental state, when the sick person feels apathetic and does not want to do anything. I think that we can expect a little productive work in this state. To be precise Art history has several well-known artists who are known for mental illness, but they had another diagnosis, not depression.

Even affective insanity has two different mental states , when depression changes to the opposite state of euphoria.

I agree that an artist is very sensitive and has a great imagination, which helps him to create. Of course sensitive artist often has state of frustration, if he has many obstacles and bad living conditions. But an artist must have a lot of energy, will power, and be persistent in order to overcome all obstacles to create great artworks.