Report Creativity Closely Linked To Mental Illness

[tom_mai78101]

Individuals who work in creative fields are diagnosed and treated with a mental illness more frequently than the general public, showing an important link between writing and schizophrenia.

The finding came from a team of experts at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Their extensive research on the Swedish registry is currently the most inclusive in its area.

Research conducted by the team in 2011 indicated that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are more prevalent in families consisting of artists and scientists compared to the society at large. They demonstrated that the dopamine system in healthy, creative individuals is fairly similar to that seen in people with schizophrenia.

The aim of the current study was to determine whether more psychiatric diagnoses, such as depression, alcohol and drug abuse, schizoaffective disorder, autism, ADHD, anxiety syndrome, anorexia nervosa, and suicide, were linked with creativity as well. Since their prior trials consisted of hospital patients only, this time they included people in outpatient care.

Creativity Closely Linked To Mental Illness

Individuals who work in creative fields are diagnosed and treated with a mental illness more frequently than the general public, showing an important link between writing and schizophrenia.

www.medicalnewstoday.com

Should we be creative?

 

[Accname]

I am pretty creative and pretty strange, so, maybe this is true.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

*confuses correlation with causation*
Writing gives you schizophrenia?!?!?!?!

 

[Varine]

Schizophrenia gives you writing, and subsequently made you its bitch.

For more information on schizophrenia's bitch, contact Kaerf the gnome cop.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

We should rename "The Writer's Corner" as "The Schizophrenic's Corner".

 

[tom_mai78101]

We should rename "The Writer's Corner" as "The Schizophrenic's Corner".

What about Graphics Corner? Autism's Corner?

 

[rover2341]

perhaps its because they are educated enough to know they have it. Or they go noticed more then someone working at a job that is more task driven and less thought driven.
Or it has to do with working the brain. who knows.

I am not very creative. Or In artist, and write very poorly. so I think I am safe.

 

[FireCat]

Eh bullshit?
Seriously, these two categories are their own separate thing, They Just shouldn't be mixed by any means.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Eh bullshit?
Seriously, these two categories are their own separate thing, They Just shouldn't be mixed by any means.

Tell that to the researchers who did the study with a sample size of 1.2 million.

 

[FireCat]

Tell that to the researchers who did the study with a sample size of 1.2 million.

Hmm why not! Btw: Where's the "1.2 million" Samples????

 

[KMilz]

Dead, where do you think?

Got to do somethin' with 'em after you're done with 'em.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Hmm why not! Btw: Where's the "1.2 million" Samples????

Nearly 1.2 million patients and their family members (down to second-cousins) were examined for the current study. All subjects were compared with healthy controls, Swedish residents from the most recent decades. The information could not be associated to anyone studied because the data was anonymized.

 

[FireCat]

Evidence/Samples? Yeah, right, LOL

 

[camelCase]

Evidence/Samples? Yeah, right, LOL

FC was once extremely creative. He is now mentally disabled.

 

[tom_mai78101]

FC was once extremely creative. He is now mentally disabled.

The article implies being extremely creative comes from being mentally disabled. But not the other way around.

 

[Varine]

The article implies being extremely creative comes from being mentally disabled. But not the other way around.

I said that 12 posts ago. However CC proposes a very good scenario that I personally enjoy much more so I'm going with that one.

Cheshire is still extremely creative. He just displays it in a more incoherent way. In a few years, we'll view him as the Van Gogh of words (which is to say, not really give a shit for the most part). But, we will be able to say, "we were the best god damn friends Cheshire ever had, because no one else would have the son of a bitch". And WE'LL be famous because HE'S famous for killing someone in a few years (in a creative way), and we'll all testify that he's apeshit crazy so he get's a psych plea and does three years in a bin.

 

[tom_mai78101]

"we were the best god damn friends Cheshire ever had, because no one else would have the son of a bitch".

 

[FireCat]

OMFG This is the weirdest damn story I've ever ...

 

[The Helper]

I wonder if this study still holds up?