While we often may discuss the influence of madness on creativity, I’ve rarely run across the connection addiction and creativity.
In a blog post on Psychology Today, Mary Sojourner, the author of “She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction” (Seal Press/April 2010), writes about the moment she realized its connection to her own creativity.
She writes about finishing the book Witness to the Fire by Linda Schierse Leonard:
“…I knew more about the possession I feel when I have to write – and about the emptiness of the many years I didn’t write and why nothing filled that void. Not lovers. Not busyness. Not relentless codependency. Not even gambling.”
Do you think that one’s creativity or one’s creative passion could help overcome an addiction, fulfilling some need that the body and mind has?

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