User talk:Sbvandi

December 2011
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 * "Artist with Bipolar disorder may have an upper hand when it comes to creativity and innovations. The drastic highs and lows make the bipolar mind go from a manic stage where the mind is racing and ideas are easily accessible to a depressed state that also may give a more melancholy mood which can produce great reflection and inspired thought. Throughout history many artist, writer, poets, and performers have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The problem that researches ran into was that in the days of great writers like Hemingway, Dickenson, Poe and artist like Michelangelo, Van Gough and Picasso there was no testing or treatment for bipolar disorder. Many people just regarded these artists as mad. The condition known as madness has a complex history. Aristotle linked madness to one's character or personality, he was quoted to say,” no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” Seneca also stated that “there is no great genius without a tincture of madness”"

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Note. Also, please do not add the content to my talk page. You can put it on your user page (User:Sbvandi) if you like. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 20:27, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Note references I have rewritten my addition and added reference. The following is my revise addition to "Mood Disorder" The link between manic depression and creativity is not a considered a new connection. The term “mad artist” and the connection between genius and insanity have been around for a long time. Thinking back to artists like Vincent van Gough and composers like Robert Schumann, one thinks of great talent, but also very eccentric and ill people. It is important to fully understand manic depression in order to look at its correlation with creativity.The condition known as madness has a complex history.[44] Aristotle linked madness to one's character or personality, he was quoted to say,” no excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.” Seneca also stated that “there is no great genius without a tincture of madness.”[45]Kay Redfield Jamison and others have explored the possible links between mood disorders — especially bipolar disorder — and creativity. It has been proposed that a "ruminating personality type may contribute to both [mood disorders] and art."[46] Jamison goes on to write in An Unquiet Mind[47], “Intense creative episodes are, in many instances, indistinguishable from hypomania” She goes on to write, “There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars...But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable...It will never end, for madness carves its own reality." Jane Collingwood notes an Oregon State University study that “looked at the occupational status of a large group of typical patients and found that ‘those with bipolar illness appear to be disproportionately concentrated in the most creative occupational category.’ They also found that the likelihood of ‘engaging in creative activities on the job’ is significantly higher for bipolar than nonbipolar workers.”[48] In Liz Paterek’s article Bipolar Disorder and the Creative Mind she wrote “Memory and creativity are related to mania. Clinical studies have shown that those in a manic state will rhyme, find synonyms, and use alliteration more than controls. This mental fluidity could contribute to an increase in creativity. Moreover, mania creates increases in productivity and energy. Those in a manic state are more emotionally sensitive and show less inhibition about attitudes, which could create greater expression. Studies performed at Harvard looked into the amount of original thinking in solving creative tasks. Bipolar individuals, whose disorder was not severe, tended to show greater degrees of creativity.[49]”The relationship between depression and creativity appears to be especially strong among poets.[50][51] - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbvandi (talk • contribs)

Your addition to Mood disorder has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. You have inserted a literal copy from http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/404.php. - DVdm (talk) 21:23, 8 December 2011 (UTC)