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0 pointswolverine8764y ago0 comments

What is pathological? The need to feel safe and have some control? That is perfectly healthy. How you do it - that is where unhealthy things can happen. Is art an unhealthy way to do it?

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girvo4y ago

I've known plenty of amazing creative artistic people who were definitely unhealthy in terms of how they pursued their art.

I'm also interested in the GP's question: what does healthy look like?

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0 pointswolverine8764y ago0 comments

What is pathological? The need to feel safe and have some control? That is perfectly healthy. How you do it - that is where unhealthy things can happen. Is art an unhealthy way to do it?

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girvo4y ago

I've known plenty of amazing creative artistic people who were definitely unhealthy in terms of how they pursued their art.

I'm also interested in the GP's question: what does healthy look like?

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