I find all the answers interesting as well.... many assumptions (like you wouldn't be creative if you didn't have MI? How could that be known? --and does that mean that all creative people are MI???? Or that you couldn't possibly be free of all of it, or that you wouldn't be a wonderful person in still another way but without the mental unwellness...

.... what if the mental unwellness is what's clouding your thinking right now, causing the inability to suppose that being free from the mental unwellness would allow you to be and do everything you wish to be and do? Can't one consider that bad things occur to everyone, but there are those with certain traits, or sensitivities etc., who's response causes them to succumb to negative events, or respond in a totally different way. (Trauma does occur to many people who do not develop PTSD, for example.) We all know someone in life I suspect, who glosses over negative events in his/her life and goes right on with their own plans, as if nothing negative had occurred.


Oft times the way we think directs our course in life (or greatly limits it). Right?