The Mind Creative
All of us at some stage in our lives, have heard of or come across
cases of “creative” people plagued with mental instabilities or
disorders like depression and bipolar disorder. So much so, that
mental illness has often been described as “the dark side” of
creativity. Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Tennessee Williams,
and Eugene O'Neill all appeared to suffer from clinical depression.
And the list goes on. Ernest Hemingway, Leo Tolstoy, Virginia
Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gogh and many other, who led
lives that were finely balanced between talent and mental torment.
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