News at Eleven (Back Page): "I'd argue the opposite,

that given that writers do spend a lot of time on their own, and that the worldly rewards for poetry are minuscule, and given that most of the time you don't know whether what you are doing is any good, it's amazing that writers don't suffer more," she [Gwyneth Lewis] said, describing poets as "the SAS of the depression gang", willingly taking themselves into difficult terrain for their work.

from The Guardian: Writers 'at greater risk of depression', survey finds

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