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When the thing you love most also hurts you most

I want to quit my artistic practice because it brings me more pain than joy but I do not know who I am without it

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The artist's identity becomes so intertwined with their creative practice that even when it causes suffering, abandoning it feels like self-annihilation.

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