Writing and depression

People think writing is therapeutic but this article explains why that is not always true.And if you are professional that adds to the problems.Not many writers become rich.

http://www.elizabethmoon.com/writing-depression.html

“In fact, if you wanted to make a cheery person with no predisposition to depression depressed, you could stick him in front of a typewriter or computer for hours a day–feed him a typical writer’s diet–forbid him to exercise, isolate him from friends, and convince him that his personal worth depended on his “numbers.” Make him live the writer’s life, in other words, and watch him sag.”