I've never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I'd have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem... It was a gradual process but I changed myself.
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
Generally, I'm a pretty positive, but like any other working person, if the jobs aren't coming in, I do get depressed.