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I do get really tired of all of the romanticization of mental illness

missvoltairine:

and especially of depression, because it’s like, depression is, I feel, my BIGGEST OBSTACLE to productivity and creative self-expression.

Like, if I had to write a song while in a depressive episode, it would go:

I’m not getting up

I’m not getting up

fuck you

I’m not getting up

that’s my song.

And certainly, mental illness has/does inform a lot of my work, and I take a certain amount of pride in that, because I can. But it is a constant struggle and negotiation.

the worst part of it is that people have been asking me lately if i’m done hose papers, or if i know what jobs i want, or when i’m coming back to school.. ugh.

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