Are Creative People Crazy?
Are creative people crazy? Well?yes.
Connie M. Strong of Stanford University has found that creative people share many personality traits with the mentally ill. Both creativity and manic depression, also called bipolar disorder, may exist due to the same genes. Bipolar disorder causes people to have extreme mood swings from happiness to despair. Some of these people self-medicate with drugs or alcohol and they can become suicidal when in a depressed period. Depression is sometimes thought of as ?unipolar,? since depressed people never go into the ?up? cycle.
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