Is depression or some other kind of mental illness a prerequisite

No, if anything it's a hindrance. Any works of literature you enjoy from authors suffering mental illness should be admired for the fact those authors overcame or fought with their illness to produce such work.

>>9288789
this

if you're suffering severely from any mental illness, or going through some traumatic shit, you're not going to be sitting down and writing/making art for hours at a time. in my experience that stuff can only be written about retrospectively, when you're in a somewhat better place.

>>9288789
Yep. Most people have some kind of problem, but only the strong produce things despite it.

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>>9288784
OP is most likely thinking of Millennial depression, which is when you has a sad because your favorite cartoon show isn't getting a second season.

contrast this with real depression, where you vomit blood from stress-related gastric ulcers and you roll up towels, bite into them and scream because you are always thirty seconds away from throwing yourself in front of a fucking truck to make the pain stop.

fucking entitled shits who spill their starbucks latte think they're depressed and that means they can't add a paragraph to their 300 word magic realism story that week because they have to scan twitter to cheer up.

if you have real depression you can't write because your critical faculties are screwed. you might have just written the most powerful sentence in literary history but you'll throw it out because your depression tells you it's shit. everything's shit, and at that point you don't even try any more.

does that answer your fucking question?

>>9288818

wow, that's deep man

you sound really depressed, you should write literature

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Whenever I'm horribly depressed I look at webm related and it cheers me up.

>>9288818
>you might have just written the most powerful sentence in literary history
so...yes?

>>9288818
You should relax. It sounds like you're suffering from Millennial angst.

>>9288818
≥millenial depression
>muh real depression

>>9288837

I'm not opening this because it's 4chan

make of that what you will

>>9288851
wgaf

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>>9288851
Don't watch this one then heheheh

>>9288818
youre depressed

>>9288851
>because it's 4chan
>fell for the le 4chan boogeyman is filled with gore and kiddie porn meme

its a blueboard you newfag its just a video of a puppy dicking around

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>>9288890
To be fair, people post terrible shit on blue boards too, like pic related.

>>9288890

bud, some guy embedded dog decapitation within blacked cuckold porn on /tv/ a few days ago

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>>9288905
>>9288914
pic related

>>9288914
maybe you should watch less cuckold porn then

friendo

>>9288929
>maybe you should watch less cuckold porn then

cuckoldry is the thinking man's fetish