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Originally Posted by Secretum
Of course not all mentally ill people are creative, and not everyone who is creative has a mental illness. But creativity is found at a higher rate than normal in people with certain mental illnesses, especially bipolar, depression, and ADHD. This is a scientifically proven fact. If your brain works differently, you are more likely to see the world in a different and creative way.
Kay Jamison, a famous bipolar psychologist, has written a book called Touched By Fire. It is on creativity in bipolar patients.
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without being able to say definitively that people with mi are creative, the answer is meaningless. Without any proof that there is a solid connection between the two things it's just a chasing after the wind.
With that in mind I will say I am creative but not because I'm bpd, but because I've been creative since I was very young (obviously prior to bpd issues). I believe on some level being as emotionally dysregulated as I am it has been something to both impair and enhance my creativity so it does affect it but it's not the reason for it.