Talk:Creativity and bipolar disorder

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Bah. All this research shows is that the modern construct of "bipolar disorder" is very similar to our centuries old notion of how artists should act. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BrownApple (talk • contribs).

The concept of creativity covers much wider ground than merely individuals with bipolar disorder. Every person has the ability to be creative. There is no logical resaon for them to be linked together.

I can accept that there's no logical reason... But at least since the rise of Romanticism, we've idolized and encouraged representations of artists as emotionally and mentally unstable people. The romantics, of course, thought this instability was a sign of a deeper and more pronounced connection to humanity's emotional core (or something like that). If we'd stuck with the Englightenment ideal of the rational artist (e.g. DaVinci), things might look very different.