studies have shown a link between manic depression and creativity. famous artists and writers such as walt whitman, vincent van gogh, william blake, and edgar allen poe all carried this attribute......hm


"So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress. "- vincent van gogh