I am a part-time professional musician (I have a bachelor of music in performance, but just couldn't handle the stressful lifestyle of a freelance musician...) Anyway. My very best performances, the transcendent ones where I felt the spark of the divine come through me and my instrument, where I have connected with something beyond me, where people who have heard me perform for years have said "wow! I've never heard you play like that before, that was so emotional and moving!"... have been when I'm hypomanic. I'm still a good enough musician when I'm stable... but the spark is missing. So yeah... I feel you.

That's why I think so many of the greatest artists, musicians, writers in history were so great... so many of them were reportedly bipolar. They could tap into the divine, think outside the box, create things truly transcendent. Because of course, they weren't always sane when they were creating.

What a gift and a curse we're given.