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Old Jan 20, 2019, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ViolinPrincess View Post
So, I am a very creative person. There has always been a story that creative people struggle with mental illness.

I uploaded my ancestry DNA results to promethease and I apparently have LOTS of schizophrenia, ADD, ADHD, depression, and autism (I have struggled with anxiety) related genes. I have never had any kind of hallucinations, but I am wondering if it really is true about creatives?

has anyone else done this test?
It's too simplistic to reduce something as complex as a mental illness to a few genes, and even more so for creativity. I really wouldn't read too much into it.