There’s a stereotype that’s been around for a long, long time about writers often having depression or being suicidal. A long list of famous novelists have been known to be diagnosed with depression, a few of the most widely known being Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sylvia Plath. Though these writers are only a few of many, out of the millions of writers in the world that do and did exist, it is not a must for writers to be depressed or suicidal.
Of all the things I do on a daily basis, there is one thing that brings me more relief and happiness than anything else and that’s writing. When I have the power of a keyboard in the hold of my hands, I have the freedom to express myself in any way I want without restriction and it also gives me a chance to release any thoughts that are either too harsh to say out loud or complicated to say verbally. Though none of my writings are in print, nor do I plan for any of them to be, I write whenever given the sliver of time and consider myself to be a writer, too.
I’ve noticed that my thoughts tend to plummet much more deeply and quicker than they did before I started to write and I’ve wondered if, maybe, it was depression. I’ve heard the stereotype and read about it more than a handful of times and took it into sincere consideration, but I realized that in the end, it was about my own perspective about life. I took out any upset thoughts in my head out and let them flow through my fingertips onto other blogs, successfully getting rid of them and stopping them from spreading any further.
In the end, stereotypes are about a group of people and just because someone is a part of that group doesn’t mean they have to conform to the prejudice that’s been given.
haesols 
Actually I’m not really interested in writing, so I haven’t searched about found out about the percentage of writers’ death or suicides. However, I have heard that many writers suicide because they usually get stressed too much and get depressed. Even though you say that some famous writers, only some, don’t have the depression, there are many researches and studies showing how much many writers get depression and suicidal.
‘Health’ magazine says that a person who writes is included in ’10 careers with high rates of depression’. For example, artists, entertainer, and writers are the jobs that have irregular paychecks, uncertain hours, and isolation. Which means they get to be alone a lot of the times, because they have uncertain hours like it is said, and they get to be really creative and smart. Also, undiagnosed or untreated mood disorders can be shown in people who are artistic. Depression is shown dominantly in people whose lives are related to creative and deep thinking.
In the most comprehensive study undertaken about ‘Writers are twice as likely to commit suicide’, researchers at Karolinska Institute in Sweden gathered datum representing almost one million patients with schizoaffective disorder, depression, anxiety syndrome, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, ADHD, anorexia and suicide. Then they looked at their employment in the the arts jobs, which were the people with creative thinking.
Like this, the argument you said about the writers’ depression and suicidal rate being low is wrong. The fact that writing job has high percentage of stress is proven and it leads to many disorders and sad results.
In the example you’ve shown about writers being included in the fields that have irregular paychecks, uncertain hours, and isolationism, I would like to point out that many writers who are famous today for both their works and severe cases of depression had jobs that were outside of writing. For example, Mark Twain maintained jobs as a printer and steamboat pilot while he lived. The occupations named are only placed with the conditions listed when they are an actual job, rather than a hobby.
True, the lack of a timely, consistent paycheck is enough to induce stress on those who depend on their writing as a way to eat and live, but the present-day situation is different. With a degree in creative writing, one can work at an advertising firm for a continuous paycheck, but competition would be high. Where isn’t there competition when it comes to lifelong occupations, though?
Freelance writers are prone to finding jobs by joining organizations of people with identical interests, which would bring up socializing as a method of releasing what feelings could bring up depression in someone.
The study that was conducted in the Institute in Sweden came out with a result of almost 1 million people, but out how many more million were these 1 million from? You did not state if it was a majority or not, though one million is a hefty number.