re: #225 ObserverArt

If I read it right, I see you say you are an artist. As an artist I can certainly understand a bit of where you are coming from, I sometimes think artists all share similar traits and one of the biggest is we can be so hard on ourselves because we are searching to find life’s answers and feel emotions so much in that search. That is why we communicate through art, because it is often times hard to do it in other ways. Art we can control, we can create and make our worlds.

I saw this the other day.

Research finds musicians three times more likely to suffer depression

In what is being described as the largest survey of its kind in the world, Help Musicians UK has found alarming rates of depression and other mental health problems among musicians.

The organisation surveyed over 2,200 musicians in the study. 65 percent admitted to having struggled with depression, while 71 percent said they had experienced anxiety or panic attacks at one time. These levels suggest musicians are around three times more likely to suffer from depression than the population at large.

Art does not come without a price.