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> > No one I know has told me of having any kind of similar experience, and looking at my friends I don't think most of them probably have. But I'm wondering if anyone here has experienced anything like this, or can shed any light on it. All thoughts and insights are appreciated.
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> > Lire"really am mostly sane, as far as I know"lyn
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> Well, I've never cried uncontrollably for no reason - usually there's a high velocity hammer/thumb interaction involved, or a screening of "Madam X" (oh, those old movies get me) - but I do have odd changes of mood from time to time.
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> I have no idea what causes it though. I used to get the odd bout of depression while I was at Uni (wallow in that self pity!), but when I tried to talk to a doctor about it he asked a few fairly nonspecific questions about periodicity and my diet and wrote off a prescription like it was a reflex action. I tore that one up.
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> I think everyone gets a monk* on every so often.
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> Maybe it's just your personal way of having one. If it helps, I suffer from the odd total suspension of brain activity, and the ensuing head-banging frustration caused by the fact that I can't remember how to spell "four" or some other incredibly obvious thing that gets stuck in my head.
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> That's very disturbing.
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> Bourne
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> *monk - "face like a monk" - bad mood.

let's just call it "restlessness". I think, maybe, a forerunner for inspiration. i don't think it has to be earmarked with crying jags or specific patterns. more, look at the outcome-----writing, painting,playing a musical instrument-----creating something. more importantly, how do you feel afterwards ? this may just be your "soul's" way of urging you towards an accomplishment. the opposite of "writer's block" (?) maybe not :)