Has song writing ever taken you near to the edge of dispair?

[Panopticon]

I find it really hard to collaborate with anyone at the same time. About all I can do is lay down some basic tracks and hand them off to everyone in my band and say, "Ok, now everybody go do something with them." From the completely disjointed wreck that comes out of that, I'll take bits and pieces, rearrange, mangle, etc. Every now and then something good will come of it...most of the time my collaborative efforts end up sucking pretty bad.

Jamming is different, usually we can do better stuff in that kind of scenario.