Apr 4 2011: Your "muse" needs to be pampered and respected, the vacillation between creativity and down time as you describe it is in my mind the nature of creativity - which is to often pathologized. Not to say that you have not been depressed. A muse is a sensitive being who wants to come and visit you - yes sometimes late at night - but then will exhaust you and be gone, until she arrives again. Creativity is a gift and a challenge.
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