Something I've noticed since I started posting here... A lot of you guys are into drawing, painting, photography, poems or just creative expression in general. Sometimes, I wonder if our limitless and vivid imaginations combined with our insecurities contribute to our anxiety... What do you guys think?
The Arts: a common interest among SA'ers?
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I think it's not just people who have social phobia. Everybody who has mental disorders achieve more things at the Arts area.
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Read this book, it's very good.
Amazon.com: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (9780684831831): Kay Redfield Jamison: Books
I have AvPD: Utilizes fantasy as a form of escapism and to interrupt painful thoughts
(Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
It may be having that and then bringing it out? Contribute? Hmm, not sure. A part of... perhaps.
Not sure about SA. And am confused if AvPD is a worse form of SA.
Yes, thinking from me is all over.
(Avoidant personality disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
It may be having that and then bringing it out? Contribute? Hmm, not sure. A part of... perhaps.
Not sure about SA. And am confused if AvPD is a worse form of SA.
Yes, thinking from me is all over.
forksandspoons
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I really have no interest in the arts at all. I love movies and music, but who doesn't? There does seem to be a large interest in poetry, song writing, drawing, etc here though.
I still find myself to be more creative than most, I just apply it differently.
I still find myself to be more creative than most, I just apply it differently.
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funnily enough I was always creative and I did a course in graphic design after high school however I didnt graduate coz I hated going coz of my shyness :-(
I think because we mainly use the more creative sides of our brains and are slightly more introverted then most ppl at least we are very caring and have positive qualities about us
I think because we mainly use the more creative sides of our brains and are slightly more introverted then most ppl at least we are very caring and have positive qualities about us
R3K
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good point. everytime i'm drawing something or tweaking a graphic on photoshop i feel like i'm putting my thoughts and feelings into every pen/brush stroke, and hoping that whoever looks at it will be able to unlock the encoded message and see what i'm too scared to say outright. having said that, i think i spend way too much time engorging myself in these little art/writing projects, trying to escape real life, repair myself from socially anxious encounters. for me it kind of does contribute to the SA cause it wastes time and energy that i should be using to combat the SA.
I guess what I should have said was that I feel like there's a link between our imaginations and social anxiety... When we're in social situations, for example, we creatively come up with different ideas of what people are thinking of us, how we're acting, how we're looking only to end up confusing ourselves over what's true and what's not. We twist our realities...
And what are many people with strong imaginations attracted to... the arts, right? I'm sure there are some exceptions... such as some of the people in this thread who aren't into anything artistic. BUT... I've yet to meet anyone with SA who has a dull imagination.
Or maybe I'm just not making sense again... lol
And what are many people with strong imaginations attracted to... the arts, right? I'm sure there are some exceptions... such as some of the people in this thread who aren't into anything artistic. BUT... I've yet to meet anyone with SA who has a dull imagination.
Or maybe I'm just not making sense again... lol
Perfect sense. Do not worry.
There is dull imagination, based on individuals' taste.
There is unique imagination. Each individual is uniquely different. No matter how similar, different.
So it is with imagination.
haha, now, did that make sense?
R3K
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(did you just change your profile pic from a nice looking young lady to uncle Fester? lol
)i've got a similar theory about this topic... when a social phobe is forced into a socially strenuous situation or is anticipating one, their brain goes into overdrive, devising any and all possible escape and avoidance methods. The result is a platter of very creative options that normal people probably wouldn't go to the lengths of devising for something as trivial (to them) as a party at Bob's house.
we gotta constantly be coming up with new excuses and avoidance techniques to keep people off-balance, to keep them from being led to believe we're @$$holes who don't like them, which would make our own anxiety worse. creative activity is just always on my mind and it's no problem for me to doodle on any surface for hours on end and create a little peice of art, however sucky... whereas normal people have to make a big mental shift from their daily grind of being normal and social that it's not worth the effort for them most of the time. maybe we social phobes aren't really better artists than normal people, we're just always in creative mode. or i am at least.
Dr. Doom
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yeah, I love art. Though I don't think any of it's good I do dabble in poetry and abstract drawing/sketching. I'd like to get some paints and better sketching tools. I can't express myself talking to other people, so I just let it out in sketch and like I said a drop of poetry.
Social_Monstrosity
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Although I appreciate art a lot, I'm not really creative or talented in that area myself. Maybe partly because I used to be very self-conscious and critical about everything I did.
When we had to write a poem for school for example, I would completely block, couldn't even write two decent lines. In the end my teacher had some mercy on me, and I didn't have to bring my poem in front of the class. I also haven't written any fiction. I used to like drawing at school, but then I went to an art academy, where I was not talking to anyone else, and found that I was not so good at drawing as I had thought, so I quit after 4 months. I used to play a bit of violin, but there I just played some existing pieces, never made the effort to invent my 'own' music. But I'm happy to enjoy the talent of others.
When we had to write a poem for school for example, I would completely block, couldn't even write two decent lines. In the end my teacher had some mercy on me, and I didn't have to bring my poem in front of the class. I also haven't written any fiction. I used to like drawing at school, but then I went to an art academy, where I was not talking to anyone else, and found that I was not so good at drawing as I had thought, so I quit after 4 months. I used to play a bit of violin, but there I just played some existing pieces, never made the effort to invent my 'own' music. But I'm happy to enjoy the talent of others.
