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Is Creativity Linked to Mental Illness?
Dear Family,
English - January 28, 2020 05:00 - 11 minutes - 16.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 59 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Society & Culture Personal Journals love family mentalhealth mentalillness parenting relationships wellness writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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If you knew your baby would inherit bipolar disorder would you gene edit or consider abortion? It’s a tough ethical question.
We could risk making the world a blander, more homogenized place if we get rid of the genes for manic-depressive illness.
I’m the daughter and granddaughter of creative bipolars. My grandparents took their lives and Mom has considered it. My daughter is a born creative. Bipolar is highly heritable. When I think of how my mom and grandparents suffered from mental demons, I question if I’d wipe mental illness genes off the face of the earth forever if I could. If I never had to worry about inheriting or passing along mental illness, would I? Aristotle, the father of western philosophy observed decades ago, “No great genius has ever existed without a strain of madness.” The long list of famous creative bipolars pushed the boundaries of the norms and we are all better off because of it.Make sure to check out mom's paintings here on Medium.
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