Creativity is the original antidepressant

Today, the growing body of research from clinical trials leaves little room for doubt that creative activity in which people participate because they want to, in an unpressured environment, delivers therapeutic benefits that are positive, significant and can be life changing. Indeed, in his book Creativity as Repair: Bipolarity and its Closure, Andrew Brink makes the plain and bold assertion that creativity is the ‘ original antidepressant’. Page 36