I have never lost it (female), rather it seems to be even a bit more intense because I am not able to bring all the creative ideas to fruition (ie, have the energy to get the supplies or have the mental capacity to follow through)

Interesting concern though. I always assumed that creativiy is innate but I do hope you get it back full time rather than spurts...It has been one of the only things that makes me feel alive through all of this. I have a feeling its all in there, its just that the body is too depleted to push it out.

Ahhh as an Artist myself, I think it has more to do with wrestling with the muse than anything else. Sometimes a little, or a lot of chaos before the bliss of creating is the needed fuel to get the fire of imagination going.

In my own personal experience my art is a direct product of the adversity and contrast in my life! I think the creativity is always there, brewing, waiting. I’ve had very long painful spells where I didn’t paint, (within the last 10 years of AF plus…) I didn’t really know it at the time, but I was simply getting prepared to create, and then…the flood gates opened!

Even if one is physically too weak to create, no one can take away the imagination, and it’s the imagination that creates worlds. 5 yrs ago I laid there in my hospital bed getting my 2nd blood transfusion within a week and asked the nurse to "please bring me a piece of paper or I’ll have to draw on the sheets." I just had to write out and sketch an idea that was running in my head for a future painting.

I'm not sure any hormones need to be in place, I don't know anything about that, but I was just about dead back then and ideas were coming to me.

I'm 50 now and painting is pretty much what I breath for.

Never give up, it’s all still in you. So go create :)
April~

My experience is that low creativity must be hormonal. I'm very artistic and creative, but I lost that drive when I got sick. I stopped drawing, dreaming, imagining. I couldn't 'see' or appreciate color, textures or sounds like I used to. Creativity definitely dried up. My DHEA is low, and perhaps other hormones... I haven't had them all checked.

Oh God yes! I struggle with this constantly. I make wreaths and holiday decorations every year and I am struggling to get through it this year. I have a show coming up in a month and I just don't want to do it at all. I am also a writer and I can go for years sometimes with writers block. I used to love to write and I can't remember the last time I wrote anything.