[Jewelry making - Article 00877] - Re: [Orchid] I sometimes wonder why I'm doing this

[Brian Corll]

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Frank,

    Really exposing myself here, but what the heck, my affliction is no
    crime. I've suffered very much through the same sorts of things you
    have, mostly severe depression. It's like diabetes, you just have to
    deal with it for most of the rest of your life, because there is no
    cure (forget what the TV commercials say about anti-depressants,
    they lie). So I've learned many coping strategies. I was trained to
    be a painter, so I consider my jewelry work to be an art form, not
    the product of a trade. Depression, as everyone knows, has been
    rampant among the artsy-fartsy crowd. Why, even Picasso once stopped
    painting for two years because of depression. But art, whether it's
    jewelry-making, painting, sculpture or what have you, is integral at
    keeping the depression wolves at bay. There's nothing better than
    seeing the fruits of your creative labors to make yourself feel
    better and build your self-esteem. The best anti-depressant is work
    and its byproducts. Skip the pills - the only people who benefit
    from them are the people who get rich making them and foisting them
    on the rest of us. The pills don't work anyway. 

    Way off topic here, but I bet there's more than a handful of
    Orchidians who have similar stories to tell. 

Regards,
Brian Corll
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