Medication and creativity..

I don't know, I find myself completing more works when I'm medicated, I seem to be able to go through with more...
Also I had so many moodswings, I'll never forget what it felt like and it's always popping up in my mind during the day. I feel like I have a boundless reservoir of material, that I can use for creatively now that I'm finally more stable

Before I went on medication, I had my thoughts racing simultaneously in many different directions. While I felt very creative, I could not concentrate on doing anything and what I wrote was essentially a bunch of stuff where I was mixing my imagination with reality and serving everything as facts with weird connections between them. Now that I am medicated, I do not feel creative at all and I feel I have no inner argument going on based on which I can make up things. However, I feel that I am actually able to achieve more things. This is so strange, not feeling the creativity but being able to use it when needed for work or whatever. I am not creative enough to know what to talk to people about most of the time but that's always been the case, with or without medication.

I recently wrote a story in which a psychiatrist was cursed into experiencing a major depression for a day by a witch patient. You can imagine who in my life might have inspired that.

It's hard for me to say if I feel less creative off or on meds. I know that my (subjective) level of creativity is generally linked to where I am in the mood cycle. Hypomanic, I will spontaneously compose annoying little songs about anything. Depressed, I feel too useless to do much of anything. Though I did complete a NaNoWriMo novel while depressed one year, so there are always exceptions.

When I am seriously depressed I write better. However, I only make jewelry when I am stable on meds. The depression kills my motivation to do anything really creative. So I am much better on meds than off.