bi-polar and creativity

Interesting, I agree with the perceptive thing... Even though it was only a book "Catcher in the Rye," introduced me to bi-polar disorder. It was pretty amazing how he looked at the world, in most cases his ways of thinking were right, although they weren't "normal"...Being bi-polar is being depressed and overcome with emotions. I think when people are bi-polar they have so many thoughts going on about the world around them. They always seem lost and confused therefore they ask themselves questions, and think more abtractly then others, however I do not suffer from bi-polar disorder so I dont know how it is I am just thinking...
My granndma was however bi-polar and I once in a while get depressed and I undersatand the whole creative aspect of it. I tend to write poetry when I am depressed or I listen to music. It helps me to relieve all of my emotions and think better I guess.

 

please fall on your stomach and do the worm for a few minutes. its in your child's best interests.

I dunno where you grew up (in the shed?) caus care in typing doesnt equate to creative ability, ill have you know.

 

my father is bi-polar. which can be a bit trying at times but he has a gorgeous soul and is a wonderfully talented musician and poet

 

The connection between Bipolarity and creativity is widely documented. As Bipolar 1 myself I have been lucky to be blessed with creativity to help me express myself during bad episodes.

Just look at all this famous, creative Bipolar suffers:

Hans Christian Anderson
Honoré de Balzac
Ludwig von Beethoven
Irving Berlin
Hector Berlioz
Anton Brückner
Lord Byron
Winston Churchill
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Rosemary Clooney
Noel Coward
Kurt Cobain
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce)
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Faukner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
George Gordon
Maxim Gorky
Georg Friedrich Händel
Ernest Hemingway
Margaux Hemingway.. Ernest's granddaughter
Hermann Hesse
Gustav Holst
Victor Hugo
Henrik Ibsen
Charles Ives
Margot Kidder
Gustav Mahler
Michelangelo
Charles Mingus
Edward Munch
Modest Mussorgsky
Charlie Parker
Jaco Pastorius
Boris Pasternak
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Axl Rose
Cole Porter
Ezra Pound
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Giocchino Rossini
Robert Schumann
Alexander Scriabin
Anne Sexton
Mary Shelly... wrote Frankenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson
Martha Stuart
Gordon Sumner (Sting)
Peter Tchaikovsky
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Leo Tolstoy
Ted Turner
Virginia Woolf
Tennessee Williams