Art, music, or perhaps other ideas.
I have a problem sharing them. In fact, I almost never got to share.

I have anxiety that my work will not get the right recognition, and mostly credit.

I know about the music industry, where people give and take so many aspects of their art, even the tiniest of sounds. You can call it inspiration. But my ego calls it "theft". I have that part of me which wants to be recognized for what I have accomplished, which also means I don't like stealing ideas and want to make "original" works... which also leaves me stuck in art, ironically yet also not ironically.
I don't want anyone to steal an idea for instance and claim credit to his own.
I know it's a problem in innovation, too. But that anxiety leaves me doing nothing. A part of me just wants to RELEASE what I'm doing, but that anxiety hits me hard.

Anyone?

[frogger62]

I know what you mean.
For me, it's more of that I'm scared to share anything I do, especially music or poetry, because it is so personal to me. I'm scared to open up like that.

[Loose Screw x 2]

I know these feelings as an artist/cartoonist and now as a writer of fiction. One of my introjected personalities was supposed to get their own comic or story series and I made the mistake of putting their name on an online game I had been playing and the next thing you know people are using it up a storm and for various reasons. I know this to be true because I googled the name first just out of curiosity and there were no results then, a year or two goes by and there are over 2000 results and now it is... let me check right quick... over 36,000 results. Always be careful what you reveal in your works and place an itellectual copyright on it so, nobody can steal your stuff.

I think every artist is their own worst enemy.

Other than display my work anonymously (ie. here), I rarely show it to people. I don't think it is good enough and I don't think I am good enough and I am not very confident about it at all. I am afraid of people judging it because, ultimately, that is a judgement of me isn't it? Or that is how the thinking goes. It is as though you have to be twice as good just to be good enough. When people do see it and say it is nice or even better, I tend not to believe them choosing instead to conclude they are just paying lip service to make me feel better.

I have one of my works on display at my psychiatrist's office by the way. I don't consider it a gift as he asked if it was for sale (he asked me to show him pictures on my phone). I couldn't sell it though as again I don't think it is good enough to put a value on it so gave it to the office 'on loan'. I noticed though he took it off the waiting room wall and hung it on his own. Go figure.

Originally Posted by Vibrating Obsidian

Art, music, or perhaps other ideas.
I have a problem sharing them. In fact, I almost never got to share.

I have anxiety that my work will not get the right recognition, and mostly credit....... that anxiety leaves me doing nothing. A part of me just wants to RELEASE what I'm doing, but that anxiety hits me hard.

Anyone?

I understand the barrier Anxiety is to what would otherwise drive our motivation. I tend to create my better work and in a frenzied frequency when I am hypo/manic. Some of this obviously stems from the motivation to do things now when in such a state but I think we can owe part of this too to the risk taking we experience. The Anxiety tends then to disappear.

It is really hard to find motivation to work elsewise. I find excuses not to sit down and create. The anxiety that I might eff it up or that it might not be appreciated is all encompassing.

The thing in my case is, I HAVE to spread my work for flow. Otherwise, it's like filling a crater with water without it streaming and spreading across the land