Joni Mitchell’s Experience with Depression
Was It a Symptom of Mental Illness or Nourishment For Her Creativity?
Welcome to From Insults to Respect. From time to time I have been discussing two distinct ways of looking at the nature of depression–the medical model and what we may wish to refer to as the creative temperament view. The medical model views people who experience depression as having an illness that requires, as the first line of treatment, taking pills that are called “antidepressants.” The enormously…
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