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Originally Posted by Manic Trance
I think the main benefit to the creative person that comes from being bipolar is the ability to make, and comfort with making, lose associative jumps, extremely fluid thought process that are often non linear and non causal. Normative folks think in this very utilitarian linear way, cannot transition between extreme big picture and radical minutia with ease, and are just like trying to get the job done. Bipolar people tend to create these thought environments where the purpose of the thoughts is the environment they produce themselves, not like thinking for some purpose per se, just thinking as a kind of psychic decorative act. It's a more poetic, more open and optimistic attitude about thought and creative discovery.
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Well put, Manic Trance! I agree. This is a good description of how I see the process in a BPer that has a creative gift. The loose association and fluid non-linear thought especially. That has always felt like how it happens, and how it is different. Most radically I experience this as a "movie", where the designs just morph one into another. They just come.
A lot of things seem to come out of left field. That's where the new stuff is. The fresh combination.
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Originally Posted by xRavenx
Also, teachers would always comment that I have a huge imagination and was constantly lost in thought.
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I've gotten comments like that too -- it's nice to hear , isn't it? (Even though we know it's sometimes not a positive outcome). The best one was "most creative person I've ever seen come through the program" Awww. (Just to be clear -- not trying to hit on me, lol!)
A lot of times, it's simply the approach -- an "outside the box",
and often unintended. Easy illustration from high school art class (long time ago!). Had an assignment to do a backyard drawing. I did a bunch of fall leaves that were on a piece of wood that was back there. Turned out everyone else had done a landscape. I didn't "mean" to be different, it just happened.