There's a version of "postpartum depression" that writers and other creative artists can experience. You "give birth" to a project -- and crash. Some of that happened to me today after posting Scrapple... -- and has happened on many, many projects in the past. Why the post-release downer? Part is exhaustion, I think. Part is wondering if all that work actually amounted to anything. Like who cares? Part of it misses the high of the work itself, the advantage of "living in one's art" instead of "living in one's life" (ref "My Dinner With Andre").
So you get through it and get back to work.
So you get through it and get back to work.
Postpartum depression (also postnatal depression) is a form of clinical depression which can affect women, and less frequently men, after childbirth.
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