So what do you think of creativity and mental illness? A lot of people seem to believe that creativity and MI go hand in hand, despite scientific evidence that speaks the opposite. Yet you get people insisting that their favourite artists should and MUST be MI in order to create their work. It's rather dangerous really. Me myself I don't know whether I'm a great example of this, or a horrible example of this. I've been doing art since I could hold a pencil, it's what I spend the majority of my time doing and I've tried out almost every medium known to man. And....I have literally dealt with multiple types of MI my entire life. I do draw inspiration from my struggles at times. I would say I am a tortured artist...But I'm not an artist because I'm tortured.