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I hope you can draw more.
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I hope so too. Took a year off uni to fix my shit before it's too late.
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Oh. I'm currently in my "(psychiatric) medical leave" year off university as well.
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This is rather weird. The moment I submit the request, I find out that there's a whole bunch of people I know who did the same.
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kopaleo.deviantart.com/journal…

I would suggest that it's because
1. People of sad/depressed/gloomy/dark personality tend to associate with others of sad/depressed/gloomy/dark personality.
2. Such people tend to be less sociable, so they know less people, and the likelihood of a small sample of people all going through hard times is high (the smaller the sample size, the higher the statistical variance).

I know it's true for me. My friends are pretty troubled as me, and those artists that I think about tend to have sad/depressed/gloomy art styles.
I think I have counted at least three suicidal attempts among the artists I watch on dA (at least according to their journal pages).
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Oh, I'm only two months late to reply. Welp.

Doesn't quite account for the numbers. It's not like everyone I know is a student.

There are a few I suspect either aren't around anymore or basically left the internet. Not sure I want to find out.