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The Daily Writer · Dec 3, 2020 · 2m

One of the tropes that seems to follow creative types around is the myth of the “tortured artist.” The myth goes something like this: creative work is very, very difficult, and it requires the artist to give their blood, sweat, and tears to their creative work. This tortured artist myth has been used to describe why so many creative types are depressed or otherwise messed up. And if you look at the number of popular musical artists from the 1970’s and 80’s who died from a drug overdose, it almost seems to be a real phenomenon that great artists are indeed tortured souls. But where does this…