Neuroscience: Link between creativity and mental illness confirmed
People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet, whose large-scale Swedish registry study is the most…
I have thought this for a long time, as it has been a commonly held theory by people with in the creative community. One only has to look at the history of the great artists, writers and musicians to see the correlation.