Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, talks about the link between creativity, creative people and mood disorders.
While I have long pushed away the ‘need to be depressed to be creative’ statement as a myth, I too have wondered how much my depression plays a role in my creative writing.
It may seem silly to someone who hasn’t experienced it, but there is a real fear there that treatment could somehow take away whatever it is helping the creativity flow.
The muse, if you will.
This video, however, just goes to show that even the famous creators wanted some easing of their suffering.
