The nature of depression is a cognitive distortion rooted in black and white thinking, paranoia, and insecurity. Songwriting is a fragile art and the observing self is the one that writes. The writer's phantom is a twilight being, usually entirely unconscious, that is the themes and the repetition, possibly the phantom of a dead relative. What about the money? There is no money. There is only the fear of not living up to the muse, who knows about the two lives. The one they're living and the one they're observing. They used to get electroshock therapy and lobotomies, but now we know that they just had unusual brains and mood disorders. Her worship is based in Philadelphia.