Comments on: Karen answers Max http://switchingtime.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/karen-answers-max/ A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Max http://switchingtime.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/karen-answers-max/#comment-470 Max Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:14:42 +0000 http://switchingtime.wordpress.com/?p=581#comment-470 Wow! I didn't expect you'd respond to my question, having so many of them every day. Thanks so much! ^^ I just think it's amazing what art can do for a person; as an artist and composer of music myself, it's my primary way of getting out any emotions that are too strong for my system to handle (and most of the emotions end up becoming that way! :O). Maybe Jensen saw those pictures and was just immediately able to identify with them in some way.. it helps a lot to relate someone else's work to your own life, and I know kids get inspired by others' works all the time. I was inspired a TON by 90s Nickelodeon cartoons when I was really young. :P It really helps you feel like you're not alone in this world.. to look at another person's creation and think "That's just like me." or "That's just like how I felt when that happened." Multiplicity is really interesting to me in that respect.. since your mind had to come up with so many different, distinctive personalities, it makes me think just how much more the human mind is capable of doing to save us from pain.. and how much more it's able to do in general. Certainly out of this came a wonderful artistic ability that helped you out as a whole.. it just proves to me more how important art and creative expression are for survival, whether it's yours to make or yours to enjoy from the outside. Thanks so much for answering =^) I wish you all the best. ~Max Wow! I didn’t expect you’d respond to my question, having so many of them every day. Thanks so much! ^^ I just think it’s amazing what art can do for a person; as an artist and composer of music myself, it’s my primary way of getting out any emotions that are too strong for my system to handle (and most of the emotions end up becoming that way! :O). Maybe Jensen saw those pictures and was just immediately able to identify with them in some way.. it helps a lot to relate someone else’s work to your own life, and I know kids get inspired by others’ works all the time. I was inspired a TON by 90s Nickelodeon cartoons when I was really young. :P It really helps you feel like you’re not alone in this world.. to look at another person’s creation and think “That’s just like me.” or “That’s just like how I felt when that happened.”

Multiplicity is really interesting to me in that respect.. since your mind had to come up with so many different, distinctive personalities, it makes me think just how much more the human mind is capable of doing to save us from pain.. and how much more it’s able to do in general. Certainly out of this came a wonderful artistic ability that helped you out as a whole.. it just proves to me more how important art and creative expression are for survival, whether it’s yours to make or yours to enjoy from the outside.

Thanks so much for answering =^) I wish you all the best.

~Max

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