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Jul 20, 2020, 02:51 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour
I kind of think Kay Redfield Jamison over emphasized the whole creativity thing in bipolar disorder, and maybe romanticizes the disorder excessively. I'm not saying there isn't anything to it, but we are people first. Bipolar second. Some people are more analytical than creative. I also agree with others who wrote that creativity is subjective.
We don't all fit into the bipolar stereotype. I can say that I almost never hyperspend. I'm a very frugal person. I do other things, instead.
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I agree about the bipolar stereotype. When manic, I've never overspent or driven recklessly. I don't think anyone except my mental health team would identify me as "manic."
As for bipolar and creativity, I've known plenty of artists, professional artists, throughout my life and I cannot think of even one that has BD. In my experience, however, artists - visual, musicians, etc. - are always highly competitive people. Like, cut-throat competitive, both with themselves and with other artists. The ones who aren't don't stay with it. Not professionally, anyway.
In my experience of being a highly creative person when manic the emotional dysregulation of BD prevents lasting creativity and success.
Being a successful artist requires a strong and well-balanced temperament. I mean, take the most famous artist ever, VanGogh. Yes, he was a brilliant visual artist, a genius. But was he successful in his lifetime? Nope. He was surely bipolar, but so erratic he couldn't maintain the business side of art, which is what is necessary for worldly success in the arts.
As for Kay Redfield Jamison, I have read all of her books and found them interesting. That said, I really wonder about her. I mean...she is or was a prof at Johns Hopkins University. Supposedly she has maintained her BD with only lithium. I don't think she's ever been IP. I wonder how "bipolar" she really is. Maybe she romanticizes her own supposed disorder, too. Just a thought.
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