Are you artistic/a poet/writer?

One thing that I have read, even from clinical studies, is that those with BPD seem to be gifted, artistic people. This makes sense as Borderlines feel emotions so deeply. It is thought that Van Gogh, Sylvia Plath, Jim Morrison, and Hemingway are among those who are thought to have been Borderlines.

What do you think? Are you gifted in the arts, be it paintbrush, pen, or musically?

I'm all three!!!

My appreciation for fine music is far greater than my ability to make it or play it. I've tried to play so many instruments and just could not pick it up the way musicians do. People who can play and make music just "get it", you know?

I used to try to draw a lot when I was a kid and teenager. I made some ok drawings, but none of them came from my own mind for the most part. Artists seem to be quite innovative, and while the groundwork might come from something, the majority of it is their own conception.

My creativity truly shines through the pen. I LOVE to write! I have a great appreciation for villains, and I love conceptualizing them. They are always so deep, troubled, have a personality or behavioral disorder of some sort, and are very complex characters that require a lot of development, but due to the negativity that surrounds them, it's pretty easy to do; for me. Just like how Beethoven was able to grasp the piano, and Van Gogh the brush and canvas, creating villains and writing is something I just "get". It comes very natural to me.

I think the BPD comes in though when I just can't commit to writing a true novel. I've done short stories and plenty of smut that is very arousing, but when it comes to something that requires a great deal of time, I bounce back and forth between ideas like a rubber ball.

Pressing my fingers against a defined set of keys, I type my interest in writing.

anonybrin wrote:I'm all three!!!

I'm not surprised.

BleedingHart wrote:My creativity truly shines through the pen. I LOVE to write! I have a great appreciation for villains, and I love conceptualizing them. They are always so deep, troubled, have a personality or behavioral disorder of some sort, and are very complex characters that require a lot of development, but due to the negativity that surrounds them, it's pretty easy to do; for me. Just like how Beethoven was able to grasp the piano, and Van Gogh the brush and canvas, creating villains and writing is something I just "get". It comes very natural to me.

I think the BPD comes in though when I just can't commit to writing a true novel. I've done short stories and plenty of smut that is very arousing, but when it comes to something that requires a great deal of time, I bounce back and forth between ideas like a rubber ball.

I've noticed this about you! You are so articulate, the way you describe/the way you use words beautifully.

jaus tail wrote:Pressing my fingers against a defined set of keys, I type my interest in writing.

Have you written any stories/poems via typing?

I've written lots of short stories and poems.

I'm a good writer and singer. All that visual art stuff gives me a headache, though.

As a child and a teenager, drawing was my number one skill and enjoyment. My dream-job from young age was a comic book artist But now the visual side of me has pretty much faded away. Nowadays I'm more creative in the conceptual and verbal domain, be it theoretical thinking or writing poems. Song-writing also. All in all; creativity has always been my main tendency in a way or another and I've always wanted to be some kind of an artist. As a child I had a good imagination and wanted to become a comic book artist, writer, movie director among other things but these scenarios always fluctuated and I never really finished any of the projects I had planned. I don't even know what it would have been that I had a need to express. But nowadays as I really have some 'content' in the form of my mental problems; thoughts, emotions etc. and I pretty much know the things I'd like to be able to express, I still don't seem to be able to really commit to some creative project because my artistic preferences (concerning medium, style and all the nuances) always fluctuate as does my identity - I might know what it is I'd like to express, but not really how. It's hard to be one day excited about the songs you've written, planning on recording them, when on the very next day you don't even like the same genre of music. So the process seems to be almost 'too creative' because it resists any organization and remains chaotic and changing, never becoming a 'work of art'. Hope this makes sense, haven't been at my clearest lately.

Not even a little bit, I have to admit I'm pretty unoriginal, that could also be just the depression talking, I don't know.

Yes!

First poems published as a teen: still writing over twenty years later!

Loved reading everyone's stories in this thread!