So it is a double edged sword as you are “walking the razor’s edge”. You require the ability to “feel” more about what you write and you may, at some point, cross the line and become so lost that nothing is ever written.

It is safe to say that our best writers never wrote a word; they died by their own hands or wander the streets outside our homes.

Page 7 has some interesting thoughts on depression and creativity:
“In a survey led by the neuroscientist Nancy Andreasen, 30 writers from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop were interviewed about their mental history. Eighty percent of the writers met the formal diagnostic criteria for some form of depression. A similar theme emerged from biographical studies of British writers and artists by Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, who found that successful individuals were eight times as likely as people in the general population to suffer from major depressive illness.”

It goes on to discuss the link between depressive illness and creativity. Some interesting things to think about or take heart in when one hits that low point in the creative process or life events.