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Interestingly, people who are creative have more in common with people who are bipolar than they do with “normal” people, but the commonalities lie not so much in the mood disturbances as in idiosyncratic thinking patterns, enthusiasm and passion for their art, how easily they can produce new and strange ideas and connections. The genius or the madman? From Michelangelo and Jackson Pollock to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan to Ernest Hemingway and Stephen King, depression or bipolar illness seems to be disproportionately common in creative geniuses. psychologytoday/collections/201307/the-downside-genius/is-angst-behind-all-great-creativity
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:27:58 +0000

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