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Poohbah
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Sep 07, 2011 at 05:22 PM
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I found this on Google. It does show a link with BP Disorder & Creativity:
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Grand Magnate
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Sep 07, 2011 at 08:54 PM
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when I was manic and hypomanic, I was very creative. I drew, painted and wrote obsessively. I think it can be part of the grieving process of having this disease that stabilizing our moods can lead to a loss or decrease in creative output. I used to write stories about dragons when I was manic and after I was stabilized my therapist wouldn't understand when I told him I missed the dragons.
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Sep 07, 2011 at 09:01 PM
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taking away my creativity is like taking away me. I am always working on multiple projects. I don't know if it has to do with the bipolar or not. My father also bipolar also creative. Genetic or illness I don't know.
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Sep 07, 2011 at 11:44 PM
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I wish I didn't have afflictions that would stifle my creativity & my ability to turn moods into something beautiful. It's just a bunch of useless words & pictures. However, I do find myself a lot more aesthetically inclined & I do enjoy music/art/literature a great deal more than I already do.
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Poohbah
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Sep 08, 2011 at 04:01 AM
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My therapist told me on Tues. that I should write my own songs or go into computer graphics. I also could become an interior decorator she said.
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Sep 08, 2011 at 06:27 AM
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I haven't had a usefully productive creative drive in over 18 months, but I had many that lasted 6 months at a time before that. Recently I have had mostly mixed mania, with lots of agitation and paranoia. That just doesn't fit the creativity recipe for me. If I can get my focused enthusiasm back, I'll be back in business in a flash. |
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Sep 08, 2011 at 08:28 AM
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I have bursts of creativity now and then. I just go with it. In the past I have tried to make these bursts my living, but as we all know with BP that is hard to do. I have hope that when I stabilize, I will find a true passion and follow it. If I had to guess, it would be writing. I always seem to have writing projects in different stages of genesis.
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Sep 08, 2011 at 08:44 AM
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I definitely think its true. My brother had bipolar disorder - he had a genius IQ and was extremely artistic. He could paint pictures, copy great artists paintings, do the art where you use fine tip black ink drawings, where you do tiny little strokes.
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Poohbah
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Sep 08, 2011 at 09:21 AM
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Sep 08, 2011 at 10:02 AM
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When I'm not depressed I am very good at math, I made the deans list in college for two years. I took all the hard classes first got through calculus, physics, statics (an engineering class not statistics), and all the other tough classes. Unfortunately that left all the boring classes and I dropped out in my third year and never went back. Right now I really wish I had finished and if I can ever get myself stable who knows. I have a hard time concentrating if something doesn't hold my interests.
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Sep 09, 2011 at 05:50 PM
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 When you first started this thread, SunAngel, I wrote a response, but put it away because it just seemed too obnoxious. Worse yet, I could have gone on far more  because it has applied in so many realms. Without adding those other realms (you're welcome, lol!  ), what the hell, here goes...Yes, VERY (not to brag, but it's my ONE real thing, so...). A LOT of things...among them: art, studio art silversmithing, with such things as reticulated silver, enamelwork, keum boo, handwrought chain etc etc (one of my teachers told me I was the most creative person she'd ever seen come through the college), arranging objects and use of color (haha, one person came through my house and immediately upon entering said, "Omg, you can tell an artist lives here!" In an apartment with white walls right now...boo!), set work for theatre productions, designing for and putting together archival picture framing, Virtually everyone comments that I don't do anything in an ordinary way --can't help it, it doesn't even occur to me do so! And this is a biggie -- making things out of "nothing" or somethingly seemingly unrelated. I've only ever personally met one other person who does this in spades and we clicked immediately -- it was such a THRILL!!! We were off to the races teaming up on many a huge project of course! Many simultaneously. Haha, I'd even shout, "Omg! I have just the thing! And would go running down the street to grab it, and usually other things as well, and run back again, bursting through the door. It was quite the sight. Heh, funny too... He was on a long visit with a neighbor -- whose house we had COMPLETELY taken over. Inside and outside. It aggravated him, but we made it all good months later when we cleared out and cleaned the place to within an inch of its life.  (In terms of mood state... Though it is with me always, when severely depressed, I don't really do anything with the ability. Normal? Yes, definitely. Hypomanic? Stand back. No, seriously, stand back! )
__________________ *********  Mr. Robot Makes me sick to the heart, Oh I feel so tired. And the way the rain comes down hard, that's how I feel inside. --The Cure
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Sep 09, 2011 at 05:53 PM
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I absolutely thrive off making something out of nothing. One of my most favorite craftisms.
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Sep 09, 2011 at 06:20 PM
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 It's a BLAST isn't it?! Even knowing that it's your thing, do you ever find yourself marvelling at yourself?! Like... wow, how the hell did I come up with that?! Like, even for your extraordinary ability, it strikes you as shockingly brilliant when it comes together? And it's almost as if you don't know where it came from?Hehe, one time I created the exact effect I wanted with 3 totally mundane things, and started jumping around, threw my hands in the air and shouted, "I'm a f****** genious!!!" Lol. (It was like a Dr. Frankenstein moment, all that was missing was the lightning storm...) Pdoc heard about it and said, "but you didn't really believe it did you?" Hell yeah I did! Sounds like we'd have such fun together! 
__________________ ********* Mr. Robot Makes me sick to the heart, Oh I feel so tired. And the way the rain comes down hard, that's how I feel inside. --The Cure
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Sep 10, 2011 at 09:24 PM
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it is s blast !!!!! And yes I do Marvell at how awesome it is ! And then I need to show some one, anyone . Yup Innerzone I think we would, maybe listen to a little cure as we craft.
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Sep 11, 2011 at 12:05 PM
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