{"id":6766,"date":"2009-12-25T23:03:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T04:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2009-12-25T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T04:03:48","slug":"is-bipolar-the-root-of-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/is-bipolar-the-root-of-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bipolar The Root Of Genius?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fave friend has been taking their new bi-polar meds Symbyax<\/a> for a year now and is happy with how their moods have evened out.\u00a0 They don’t get depressed\u00a0and they’ve had no adverse side effects. \u00a0I miss their manic upswings though, their wild ideas, their inspirations and musings.\u00a0 Their hare-brained schemes<\/em>, as his wife calls them.\u00a0 But while they may have been simply grandiose babblings from a clinically manic state, to my ear they sounded like messages of inspiration.\u00a0 They sparked ideas which often evolved into projects that earned both of us income.\u00a0 When I look back, after my friend was first diagnosed as bi-polar a couple of years ago, and think of all the ideas for projects that never materialized, I still can’t see that as being grandiose<\/a> – one man’s absurd exaggeration is another mans’ actual life.\u00a0 During the same time frame, I think of all the ideas for projects I have left undone.\u00a0 It’s about the same, so you can’t blame it on bi-polar.\u00a0 Part of the fun we have together is chatting about what might be possible to achieve between the two of us.\u00a0 That’s not grandiose, it’s simply enthused pre-paving.<\/p>\n

At Is Bipolar The Root Of Genius?<\/a> Riley Hendersen asks, “it seems that as we look through history, some of the most creative people who have shared our planet have suffered from Bipolar Disorder. So does the emotional instability of Bipolar disorder bring about genius?”<\/p>\n

I’ve known emotionally unstable people who did not display genius.
\nI’ve known some geniuses I considered emotionally unstable.
\nIt’s always a balancing act, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Andrea
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