bi-polar and creativity

for some odd reason i'm startin to find that a lot of youths wit bi-polar disorder r very creative. the only thing about them is that it's hard for em to find friends cause most people think that they're jsut out to bring em down, but fuck em. i say, "keep it up wit the creativity and see what life has in store for ya."

 

oh yeah, i think any kind of creativity can be used as an outlet for expressing your emotions. I wrote a bunch of poetry in high school, and I felt like I was on an emotional roller coaster. It really helped... because I'd be so down and out, but then I'd write something beautiful and then I'd read it to myself and feel happiness.


i think you're onto something here!!

 

what the hell has youth to do with it? i'm a middle aged bipolar creative individual.

 

well middle age counts too. i just sometimes forget to mention others. sorry if i offended ya dawg.

 

Most people with bipolar are creative, I for one have been dealing with it for years and really feel the creative juices flowing when I start writing during one of my manic phases. I can't say it's fun during the time, but afterwards I'm like wow...I'm a fucking nutcase.
I think we feel, hear, and see a lot more that goes on in the world. Were more perceptive, maybe?

 

i think ure right.

 

someone recommended me this book. ain't read it yet, but i thought it might interest some of ya. Manic-Depression and Creativity by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb, M.D

 

Cool, I'll check it out...thanks.

 

ya know soulrebel and mystic shroom said bi-polar youths outta kill themselves. well i'd like to shoot dat bitch soulrebel. he's a nazi hippy.

 

Well leave it to complete fucking morons with no clue about the mental disorder to run their mouths. Besides, if that were the case I'm sure some of the music legends, artists, and writers they probably swear by and love wouldn't have been able to make all that great art because they would have taken their un-educated pathetic advice and killed themselves.
Soul Rebel and Mystic Shroom, oh and anyone else who thinks people with bi-polar should 'off themselves' Your the un-happy judgemental assholes that make up most the population of this earth, so do me and everyone else a favor and suck on a fucking tail pipe.

 

totally agree wit ya.

 

Seriously, there's no reason for that.

 

perhaps.. overperceptive?

it is after all, a psychological disease

 

What the fuck.

Okay, show me a reference and I'll give you credit, but as for me, word of mouth isn't worth half a fifty cent orgasm.

 

There's been a bunch of studies done on this... from the book Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Genius:

Psychiatrists, realizing a connection greater than coincidence, have performed studies all over the world in an attempt to establish a link between bipolar disorder and creativity. In the 1970s, Nancy C. Andreasen of the University of Iowa examined 30 creative writers and found 80% had experienced at least one episode of major depression, hypomania, or mania. A few years later Kay Redfield Jamison studied 47 British writers, painters, and sculptors from the Royal Academy. She found that 38% had been treated for bipolar disorder. In particular, half of the poets (the largest group with manic depression) had needed medication or hospitalization. Researchers at Harvard University set up a study to assess the degree of original thinking to perform creative tasks. They were going to rate creativity in a sample of manic-depressive patients. Their results showed that manic-depressives have a greater percentage of creativity than the controls. There have been biographical studies of earlier generations of artists and writers which show that they have 18 times the rate of suicide (as compared to the general population), 8-10 times the rate of unipolar depression, and 10-20 times the rate of bipolar depression. The additive results of these studies provide ample evidence that there is a link between bipolar disorder and creative genius. The question now is not whether or not there exists a connection between the two, but why it exists.

 

yup agreed

 

i wonder why its mostly writing?

maybe caus anyone can write.. its just the people with more emotions have more to write about, emotionally.


whatever the case, i fuckin hate depressed people poetry.

 

Everyone can write? Everyone except you? hahaha you should probably be more literate when trying to prove a point, especially one of this nature. Nice try though shit for brains.

 

One of my friends has Bi-polar and she's one of the best artists i've ever seen. And she can also write some terrific poetry, just too bad that it's always depressing as hell.

 

Well i'm bipolar i'm not a writer and i'm not great at spelling but i'd like to think i'm pretty good at creating art.