What I am most grateful for is how cathartic and healing it has been writing this blog twice a week. The clinical depression symptoms I experience are unpredictable for when they arise or for how long they last. And so I’ve learned that applying my creative talents makes me feel better whether I am writing, drawing, photographing, composing music or creating powerpoint presentations for my motivational talks. Somehow applying my creative skills alleviates mental pain and allows me to focus, feel good and be extremely productive.
This means that I have several decades worth of writing, illustrations, photos and music that people have not yet seen or heard. My dream is to someday share these works with the world because I believe they can be uplifting for others as much as they have uplifted myself in dark times. So this anniversary compelled me to share one of the first songs I composed, performed and recorded 25 years ago in 1991 called “In the Film”.
In the Film song (1991)
My “In the Film” song was written during a time when clinical depression was slowly seeping into my life. You can actually see it in the lyrics and tone of the song. Thankfully I intuitively knew that using my creative skills made me feel much better. And then over the years this song would comfort me like a warm blanket whenever I felt lost, alone or hopeless. I was then inspired to create a 4 minute movie montage to feature the song so it could reach others also dealing with depression.
Please check out my video! And if you know a friend, co-worker, loved one or family member going through a difficult time please share this video: Click here or video below
Producing this movie montage was a labor of love! I featured clips from over 25 movies that have saved my life many times over the years. Envisioning the project, organizing and editing helped me feel fantastic, joyful, positive and optimistic and I injected these feelings into the spirit of the video. Here are the names and time codes to the specific film clips featured in the movie montage…
List of Movie Clips:
0:00 Groundhog Day
0:09 Notting Hill
0:14 The Twilight Saga: New Moon
0:24 It’s a Wonderful Life
0:29 Jerry Maguire
0:33 The Artist
0:38 The Purple Rose of Cairo
0:48 The Majestic
0:52 Cinema Paradiso
0:55 Bowfinger
0:57 It’s a Wonderful Life
1:00 The Notebook
1:02 Groundhog Day
1:04 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1:07 The Artist
1:11 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1:14 Blazing Saddles
1:18 Saving Mr. Banks
1:20 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1:22 Cinema Paradiso
1:28 Mr. Bean’s Holiday
1:29 Hugo
1:33 Catch Me If You Can
1:38 The Public Eye
1:43 Be Kind Rewind
1:53 The Twilight Saga: New Moon
1:57 The Majestic
2:02 Cinema Paradiso
2:14 The Purple Rose of Cairo
2:18 Simone (S1m0ne)
2:21 Saving Mr. Banks
2:25 Amélie
2:28 The Majestic
2:34 The Purple Rose of Cairo
2:36 Hugo
2:44 Amélie
2:46 Saving Mr. Banks
2:49 The Purple Rose of Cairo
2:51 Bowfinger
2:53 Femme Fatale
2:56 The Artist
2:58 Captain America: The First Avenger
3:00 Cinema Paradiso
3:03 The Artist
3:06 The Green Mile
3:14 Bowfinger
3:17 Simone (S1m0ne)
3:22 Notting Hill
3:25 The Notebook
3:30 Get Shorty
3:36 Leon
3:41 The Shawshank Redemption
3:46 Hugo
3:50 The Artist
3:53 Bowfinger
3:55 Sullivan’s Travels
3:58 Cinema Paradiso
4:01 A Good Year
4:13 It’s a Wonderful Life
4:15 Groundhog Day
4:17 Cinema Paradiso
4:21 The Majestic
4:27 The Purple Rose of Cairo
Whether it is called movie therapy, art therapy or by any other name I encourage you to explore your own creative skills and talents for helping you cope with depression or difficult times. Utilizing your creativity and doing something positive from the negatives you experience is the silver lining of adversities! You will be making lemonade out of lemons and you will feel good in the process. This is how you re-energize yourself and how you can activate indestructible optimism!
P.S. A big thank you to two friends that encouraged me to start this blog: Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja and photographer Derek Lang. You are such awesome friends and supporters!
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