I do not believe suffering helps anything; it is articles like these that get some young people deciding they have to live in an unheated garret and die young to be "poets" or something. Everyone has problems and difficulties and that is what we put in our stories and art work but being ill on top of life's normal problems, that cannot help make the difficulties "better". We have too many rock stars who have died from drug difficulties; you would think young people would be bright enough to see that any "art" (and I am not sure Janis Joplin is known for her music more than for her drug activities and the sensationalism) and lifestyle that came from drug use or mental illness was not really worth it, not something one wants to aspire to?