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Creativity and its relationship with mental health is a concept of discussion since many years, since the time several findings have been seen in likes of Einstein, Stephen Hawking’s. Further, many artists and creative people have famously struggled with their mental health likes of Vincent Van Gogh, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf all eventually ended their own lives. Furthermore great people like Abraham Lincon suffered with depression, Ludwig Von Beethoven had bipolar disorder, Edvard Munch diagnosed with panic attacks, Michelangelo diagnosed with autism and the list goes on…
The explanation for this is unknown but many scientists believe that normal brain has its closed circuits and when it wants to create something new it open up new dimensions of brain and thus the normal brain is able to process and respond to the needed stimulus. But, in creative people these channels that open for creativity when needed are always working and open to stimulus always and the levels of IQ and levels of creativity foreside the normal people.
History has shown that parallels can be drawn to connect creativity to major mental disorders including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, OCD and ADHD. Creative motives and creative products are unique to human beings. Scientifically speaking thinking is unconventional in nature, creativity is highly motivated and persistent with great intensity. Emotionally stable life does not allow the mind to create new things, mood disturbance and intoxicating circumstances lead to the development of any new creation.
Summing up, biologically all human beings are impressive beings indicated by eminent use brain, there need to be understood that despite all the scientific studies, towards validity of a diagnosis of mental illness it is unclear and uncertain that psychopathology, personality profile, stress and skills are instrumental for creativity.