A question about how people deal with depressive episodes as they write.

The way you describe feeling about your work - boring, mediocre -is that how you feel when thinking about writing it or actually writing it? Because when my depression bottoms out that's how I wind up feeling about mine until I sit down to do it, and sometimes after, but during the writing itself I feel fine about it. I know "just do the thing" sound like crap advice about writing and depression, but I think that's what I mean when I say I "write myself through" depression - everything i do sucks and is worthless unless I'm actually doing it, which is when it becomes often the only thing that goes right in a given day. Maybe it's just escapism, but it works better for that than passive media does, probably because of the attention it requires.

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