Loss Of Creativity

[TT1981]

Has anyone noticed that once you started taking psychiatric medications that your creative abilities disappeared or lessened? I've always used poetry and sketching as a means to deal with my traumas (I'm a published poet), but since being on my meds (Wellbutrin XL, Lorazepam and Prazosin for nearly a year now) I can't seem to put anything on paper! I literally feel disconnected to my creative self. I keep trying, but then freeze; it's like I space out and have forgotten how to write and draw. It's so frustrating that I'm almost at a point that I'm ready to give up on these activities, but it saddens me because I've always loved them so much. Could my creativity be connected to my "darker" side which is now being subdued by my meds?

 

[hodge]

I hear you. But my loss of creativity wasn't due to being on meds; it was taking on a part-time job. I hope this is just a temporary block and you can create again.

 

[TT1981]

Thanks...I hope so too

 

[Friday]

Completely depends on the medication. Some make me more creative, some less. Some I'm totally fine in areaA, & totally incapable in areaB, & oddly off-kilter in areaC, & completely untouched in areaD.

 

[Ocean5]

I know the different SSRIs I took and benzos caused loss of critical thinking skills I need for work. I use to be so creative in coming up with solutions... :(

I think each person is different in how they react to medicine. Glad for the people it does help.

 

[Paulalee64]

I feel ive lost my ability to write just from trauma and drug use. I guess psych meds could do the same in some situations. I miss having that outlet. I need to stay on my meds tho i cant take chance of relapse. All i find are articles on how trauma causes creativity not the loss of it

 

[J'qel]

I lost mine, but I later learned that it wasn't the meds. It was the crap that lead me to take them. It was the feeling awful, and slowly crawling back up. As I got better and more level, and started to have up points again, I started wanting to be creative again. It was just that I spent a long time swimming up to the surface from the grey mire I was in.