Does mental illness produce best creative material?
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Re: Does mental illness produce best creative material?
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I loved this quote and I think it is relevant to the question. I guess mental illness is not necessarily a requirement for good work (that would be problematic, right? ). I do, however, believe that a troubled mind has a lot more to express than a comfortable one. Trauma, sadness, mental illnesses, although terrifying, do tend to form a special view of the world in the artist. And when you find a certain feeling you thought to be unique and your own into an art piece, be it a painting, music, a book, it is the best thing ever. It does transmit a feeling of camaraderie that we can't deny and people tend to bond in suffering.
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Ummmm as someone who's spent a grand total of 13 months in a hospital/residential treatment setting I would like to say that depression is very much a mental illness and I at the deepest points of my depressive episodes was very much not rational... Seeing as that's how you define mental illness lol. I'm gonna be stuck on meds until the day I die because of my depression and it's high key offensive that you're trying to minimize it as a condition. And I've written some of my best lyrics because of the feelings I've felt because of my mental illnessMaragothThorn wrote: ↑29 Nov 2014, 17:35 Why is it that when people say "mental illness" people think about depression? A mentally ill person is someone who can no longer use rationality (not to be confused with mentally challenged people, such as those with Cerebral Palsy or Down Syndrome). A depressed person is not mentally ill...they have their emotions in the dumps and it also affects their health. And I feel it as rather wrong to say that it produces the best creative material.
Get facts straight before you try to say someone who was bedridden because her depression made it so that even breathing was physically taxing isn't mentally ill.
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I suffer from Panic attacks and I feel that when I experience one my creative side gets crippled and I can't think of anything but that panic attack. Creativity mostly comes from people that think of life differently. Perhaps someone with a mental illness can see the world in a different way so that way they can write more creative work.
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