http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/Reprints/SuicidalPoets.PDF
Needless to say, soon after reading this, I began to notice "first-person" references creeping into my poems. I have typically NOT written from the "I/me/mine" perspective, having rather tried to deal with inner states the way a meteorologist, for example, approaches communicating the details of the weather. While, as the Reuters story quotes the head researcher reporting: "As a group, no one would call poets a particularly bubbly, chipper group,", I have tried to keep tabs on this factor of late, due to the extremely dire nature of my day-to-day existence. After all, I'd hate to surprise myself with some random suicidal act unaccompanied by truly morbid sonnet cycles!
Again ... like anybody out there fucking cares ...