Everyone has an inherent creative instinct, which essentially is your life force. The door to all your creative energies is dammed shut, like Pandora's Box. What results is mental illness in its infinite variations. Yet, society makes those individuals who walk a different walk and talk a different talk, as odd. This is because people fear that which they do not understand.
Sheep have the same capabilities.
Believe in your Self first, and society will reap the benefits. While working in Rome, Italy as a professor and counselor, she created and developed Literatherapy, the use of certain types of literature, in conjunction with journal writing and creative writing, as therapeutic tools for counseling. She wrote Folk Fairy Tales for Solving Common Developmental Conflicts in Children , as well as many articles on the use of Literatherapy for adults. Within a clinical psychology doctoral program in Rome, Italy, she cultivated the idea of Creative-Eccentricity as a new model for psychological wellness, with the belief that every individual possesses the creative instinct, that it is present in all of us. Continued long-term, emotional and psychological problems result.