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Originally Posted by (JD)
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?
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i know that being medicated helped with a lot of my mood swings but also subdued my creativity. I know that most of the artwork and creativity I have flows from my passion and emotional extremes, which is, also one of the traits attributed to my "disorder".
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--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...
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No. Jumping to the conclusion that this makes any assumption that all creatives are mentall ill is way off base. I don't think that attributing one's creativity to their MI is in anyway implying that. That's a huge jump. Although I will say that many famous creative artists were at best, "eccentric".
Whether someone were still a great person or not lacking their mental illness, is soemthing we cannot know. I might also add that we're all, in a certain degree flawed mentally. Show me one person lacking in any kind of mental instability whatsoever. Very hard to imagine myself free of MI when i don't even have a real example of that IRL.
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.... 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.
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I again reiterate that I know of no such people in real life that lack any kind of weakness, mental instability or illness. I think that all of us have it to some degree but some are able to cope well and get by better with theirs without help more than others.
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Oft times the way we think directs our course in life (or greatly limits it). Right?
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Always. The way we think directs our course in life. There is no such time where our thoughts, patterns and behavioral habits do not affect our the way our life goes. We're never completely on Autopilot so yes.