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Creativity Linked to Mental Illness, Study Confirms
Live Science ^ | 16 October 2012 | LiveScience Staff

Posted on 10/17/2012 4:33:24 PM PDT by Paradox

Creative types are thought to be more likely to suffer from mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. A new large-scale study of the Swedish population helps confirm this link.

Last year, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet near Stockholm found that families with a history of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia were more likely to produce artists and scientists. They built on this evidence in a new study, published this month in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, which covers a larger population sample and a wider scope of psychiatric diagnoses...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: creativity; depression; mentalillness; suicide
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Not surprising. Considering most artist and actors, which way is it that the lean (heavily) again? Tell me again why I should listen to these mentally ill people again about Politics?
1 posted on 10/17/2012 4:33:33 PM PDT by Paradox
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To: Paradox

Mentally ill people are enormously creative. They are some of the best artists. Locked facilites have arts programs to help channel this gift in otherwise tragic souls.


2 posted on 10/17/2012 4:35:21 PM PDT by Chickensoup (STOP The Great O-ppression)
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To: Paradox

Let their creativity serve. It’s okay. But keep them away from the public treasury.


3 posted on 10/17/2012 4:37:17 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Candy Crowley: The MSMs' very own Agatha Trunchbull.)
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To: Paradox

i believe this...


4 posted on 10/17/2012 4:39:29 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Paradox

I think I’m gonna paint a masterpiece, and then after dinner, slice off my ear.


5 posted on 10/17/2012 4:42:04 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Paradox

I’ve always looked upon creativity as a blossoming of the associative capacity. Schizophrenia is the same phenomenon, taken to the point where the mind can no longer function.


6 posted on 10/17/2012 4:47:51 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Paradox

Creativity (in the Artsy Fartsey venue) as witnessed by me is more pronounced in the Bi-Polar folks...
I have 2 friends (both Bi-Polar) that are so talented and creative... they pretty much have to be Artists because they can’t hold down a job ... when on their meds they are normal... off their meds not so much.
Both tell me the same thing that even though when on their meds they can function and interact in regular society they both prefer not taking their meds because they are on some kind of natural high and to them everyone else is blind and moving in slow motion (yeah but they are incoherent)... but they produce lots of Art... and it’s pretty good
House Rules ... They must be on their meds if they want to visit or attend functions, we all agree that there are far fewer flashing lights and handcuffs that way

TT


7 posted on 10/17/2012 4:48:08 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: Paradox

We hear all the time how creative gays are.


8 posted on 10/17/2012 4:49:05 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Chickensoup

My mom is manic depressive, but not very creative.

However, my daughter is extremely creative, and i worry about her with our family history. She’s into theater, singing and writing. She was an excellent flute player at 15, and was starting to win all sorts of awards.

Last year, she came down with musician’s and writer’s cramp (focal dystonia). It causes uncontrollable muscle movements and cramping.

It’s made worse by stress. The doctors have said she fits the mold for that disorder. High achiever and doesn’t have good body awareness so they just push their bodies through pain and don’t know when to stop.

It makes me wonder about mental illness. Maybe they don’t know when to stop. Maybe if you catch it early, you can prevent them from falling into psychosis.


9 posted on 10/17/2012 4:49:32 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Chickensoup

That’s why those yoyo’s in hollywierd pull so much crap. They’re useful tools to the left.


10 posted on 10/17/2012 4:51:00 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Fester Chugabrew
"But keep them away from the public treasury"

Fair enough. Unless you entertain a 'truly needy' function of govt. assistance. The mentally ill are truly needy. They're living in Hell.


11 posted on 10/17/2012 4:51:57 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: Paradox

I’ve always believed that normal and genius cannot coexist....if you are one, you can’t be the other.


12 posted on 10/17/2012 4:57:00 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (People on stage at 2nd debate: 1 Romney 2 Eye Candy 3 Lie Candy)
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To: luckystarmom
It makes me wonder about mental illness. Maybe they don’t know when to stop. Maybe if you catch it early, you can prevent them from falling into psychosis.

Good point. I don't know if that is the case, but it certainly makes sense.

13 posted on 10/17/2012 5:00:16 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Paradox
A new large-scale study of the Swedish population helps confirm this link.

It couldn't have anything to do with reefer bars and pot dens along with a few hash pubs sprinkled in could it ?

14 posted on 10/17/2012 5:01:12 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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To: Paradox
I will go further and say they no only are coincidental, they are somewhat connected. And I will also say they are most often not permanent problems in one’s brain.

When a person pushes themselves along artistic or creative frontiers, the bipolar parts come out along with the creativity. It is the cost of being creative. If the same person did not drive themselves as hard in an artistic endeavor, their bipolar disorder symptoms would go away or be sharply reduced.

15 posted on 10/17/2012 5:09:48 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Paradox
Perhaps it is the 'response' of the 'normals' to creative people that begins the 'issue'. Maybe this it is 'we' they want to 'fix'/lol. . .

That said; think these studies are designed to create another 'victim' class; of children and adults; with 'special needs' - who need Government assistance; special 'therapies'; 'special parenting'; all designed/implemented by a caring Government.

(One that is in truth; a sick - mentally ill - Government; whereby this Government collective of Liberals; cannot come up with enough labels for the population it so, wants to control; nor enough 'ways/means' to achieve their goal.)

Would offer, as well; that any 'serious' left-wing Liberal is mentally ill. We know they suffer from a 'God-complex' - enabled by a psychotic-sized narcissism; which in turn; gives rise to their ultimately, hideous ideology and world view; along with their heinous MO's to recreate - and impose upon us - the world they see, in their sick 'mind's eye'. . .

16 posted on 10/17/2012 5:11:02 PM PDT by cricket (The Middle Class: Thanks to Obama's efforts; a now 'shovel-ready' project. . .)
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I don’t believe any of this babble I’ve been an artist all my life and i’m none of these things they mention but i’m supposed to believe i’m sick because i’m a creative person how the hell did i become Conservative from birth if i’m so sick in the head ?

I do concede that some mentally ill people are very creative but i don’t think one thing has to do with the other but on the same hand some people who are not creative are very mentally disturbed actors can make you laugh and cry but that don’t make them creative someone else writes their script and they play act to get the feeeeelings into it your feeeeeling and theirs .

This is just another notch in the belt of government doctors and socialist engineering


17 posted on 10/17/2012 5:23:22 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })
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It couldn't have anything to do with reefer bars and pot dens along with a few hash pubs sprinkled in could it ?
Get a map. Pot is illegal in Sweden. You are either thinking of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, or the Christiana district in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I've seen dumb high kids get arrested in Malmo,Sweden, after getting off the train from Copenhagen. High Drug mules with more piercings than functioning neurons are easy targets.
18 posted on 10/17/2012 5:23:55 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: luckystarmom

Hmmm I think this might be one of those A/B things where artists are psychotic or is it that they become artists because they (we) can’t express ourselves verbally. Steven King scares me. I do not want to know his mind.

As for your daughter, stress seems to be a major factor. There are self help psych books on biofeedback which helps us control ourselves when we are stressed. Like the SEALS training. Controlling your breathing, heart rate, the whole shebang. Becoming aware of your body can be learned, like playing the flute. Yoga would be great. There is a 90 year old yoga teacher. Beautiful! Just an idea.


19 posted on 10/17/2012 5:28:26 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Paradox
Last year, researchers at the Karolinska Institutet near Stockholm found that families with a history of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia were more likely to produce artists and scientists.

Interesting that scientists are included with artists.
20 posted on 10/17/2012 5:31:08 PM PDT by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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