grief created a creative block

2025-04-26 10:31 Note Type: Tags: grief, creative-block

I've had multiple Photographers tell me to use photography as a way to help the grief, but I've found it doing the opposite.

As someone with depression, your situation sounds so familiar. Hobbies that I really love end up getting relegated because there's no joy in it for a while. All I can say is that going to therapy helped a bit, but also somewhat forcing myself to do things that are good for me / were enjoyable also helped. "Fake it till you make it" is absolutely a way of treating anhedonia. Start small, but do things you used to do consistently.

References:

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/10z9fv4/grief_has_caused_a_photography_block_and_i_dont/

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