Questions About Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament

by Kay Redfield Jamison (Goodreads Author)

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Is it true that people who are bipolar are able to become better writers than others as long as their mania is controlled by medication? Are they able to eventually become mystics. I am bipolar and have been writing for four years. My writing seems to have taken a turn for the better so I was just wondering. Also, does Prozac cause manias. I have experienced far too many manias on it since 2002.

Robert Fawcett As Kay Jamison's book Touched with Fire describes there is an association between bipolar disorder and artistic achievements in language, visual, and …moreAs Kay Jamison's book Touched with Fire describes there is an association between bipolar disorder and artistic achievements in language, visual, and musical arts. But simply being bipolar does not mean you will be a great artist. Bipolar writers like Hemingway put in lots of hours developing his craft with good mentors for his terse journalistic style. Generally antidepressants alone with an accompanying mood stabilizer(like lithium, lamotrigine, Depakote) can provoke more manias. Robert Fawcett MD, author of Calming the Bipolar Storm (less)

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