Comments on: compelled

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:40:20 +0000

I have the urge to fix. To make better. To protect.

Guy syndrome?

By: NBFB

NBFB — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:37:45 +0000

I don’t think I ever have urges to create. I need to solve, if that makes any sense.

By: dainec

dainec — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:44:55 +0000

Eek! I have a diagnosed compulsive disorder (actually, I lean toward the obsessive) – and even happily medicated, I tend to create. My thing is journaling, and I used to be a big scrapbooker. That was pre-website. Now I tend to put my energies online. I don’t really do it for anyone but myself.

I put my own touch on my work, too. It’s like I put a piece of myself out there in whatever I do. Or something like that.

By: jms

jms — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 02:05:06 +0000

I need to write. It’s definitely something I’m compelled to do. My sister, who was a good artist in high school, doesn’t feel compelled to create at all. Once, in my older-sisterly wisdom, I decided she was unfulfilled and needed an outlet. I bought her some books on creativity, some art supplies, etc., and she never used them. That was years ago. She doesn’t create at all—no crafts, no gardening, nothing. Yet she says she’s perfectly happy, and it’s probably true that she’s way happier than I am. It’s a curse and a blessing, this writing thing.

By: keith

keith — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:18:30 +0000

Just recently I read in someone’s blog about this creative thing being isolated as some sort of mild disease, and in the compulsive disorder family if I’m not mistaken. I can’t remember where it was, but I’ll hunt around a little bit. You’d think I would have paid more attention, being afflicted with similar creative symptoms. I certainly wouldn’t take any meds to stop it. Would you?