Great creativity often involves mental illness

For a long time, the link between mental illness and psychology and creativity has attracted many people. Art history has shown very clear examples and no lack of evidence.

Researchers at the Karolínska Institute of Medicine in Sweden have just published a journal in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, which confirms that there is always a link between creativity and deviation on standards. mentality.

They analyzed the status of 1.2 million people who are not only patients who are treating mental illness at medical facilities but also outpatients and their families, including distant cousins they. The data obtained will be compared with the control group.

Creativity often has implications for neurological or psychological disorders.

The results show that some psychological diseases as well as bipolar disorder (dipolar perturbatio) are very common in families with celebrities in the field of arts and science and technology.

In addition, experts have found that innate geniuses tend to commit suicide and about 50% have successfully committed suicide. Scientists also discovered that many siblings of mental patients, bipolar, autism disorders are among those whose lives are related to art.

The author of the study, Dr. Simon Kyaga, thinks that it is necessary to consider the problem of psychological disturbance with the other eye and 'in another world' to be able to draw useful things. For example, an autistic person or a person suffering from extreme sports is properly concerned that they are geniuses. In people who know how to be schizophrenic (crazy), it can be so.

Mr. Kyaga commented: "Certain patients-related phenomena are useful. They open the way to finding new approaches to healing. In these cases, doctors need to consider revisit your views while approaching the syndromes that have the common name 'psychological disturbance'.

The director of the Mental Health Information Center Beth Murphy said: ' It is important that we do not romanticize people with mental health problems, obsessed that we are having two geniuses at war. won in the head '. We know that 1 in 4 people is diagnosed with mental health problems at every level, every occupation. Our main task is to screen information and support those who need support.