I have been an artist for quite a few years. I'm Bipolar II and don't get many of the highs, but I work on my artwork almost daily, like a form of therapy-plus I want to improve. I draw mostly, but everyone is after me to use colour, even though to me, I haven't mastered what I'm doing in black and white yet. Everyone else says so, but I think you have to be happy with your own work first. I quit for a year or so when everyone still lived with me, because I was so depressed, I didn't even care about that, and when I picked it back up, my p-doc was thrilled. He said it was a very positive step in coming out of the depression, and it does help with it. So I draw, everyday, even if it's just quick sketches in the book I carry.