CONFIRMED! "Writers are insane."

[DrLeftover]

And this is news?

Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people.

Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse, the Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute found.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565

 

[Jazzy]

Well, Doc, I guess that explains it.....

 

[DrLeftover]

And you had any doubt?

 

[Evil Eye]

People can make any one look insane, why not just be truthful and say all Humans are insane?

Because if everyone is insane everyone is sane.

 

[Evil Eye]

That's just make you insane

 

[Flurry]

Makes sense. Fanfic writer I know of has been writing her stories for years with some amazing consistence and general insanity in her stuff.

 

[DrLeftover]

Some great artists were nuts. Van Gogh for instance (who is known as much for his personality as his art), and some were not, like Durer, whose work everybody knows (best known example below), but they've never heard of him as a man, and didn't know he did this iconic image.



Mark Twain was as normal as they come, he was also a great writer. Poe was everything else, AND a great writer.



I don't think the generalization can be carried across the board as easliy as the BBC writer suggests.

(The Praying Hands)



Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528)

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't think the generalization can be carried across the board as easily as the BBC writer suggests.

Things are never as simple as they appear, are they?

 

[DrLeftover]

I was waiting for somebody to come back and point out that Durer had his own weird streak.



But perhaps I'm the only one that had heard of him.



To be specific about it, Albrecht Durer had convinced himself that 'talent' was a Divine gift, to the point where he did a self portrait in the pose usually reserved for icons of Christ.



To Wit:

Yeah.... he thought rather highly of himself.