According to this BBC article, a new study indicates that there is an increased chance that creative people will suffer from a mental illness.
Later it asks whether being more suscepitble to mental disorders make us more likely to be writers, or being writers make us more susceptible to mental illnesses.
The suicide stats do make depressing reading however.
Thought I'd share, since it's interesting.
Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people.
Writers had a higher risk of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse, the Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute found.
Later it asks whether being more suscepitble to mental disorders make us more likely to be writers, or being writers make us more susceptible to mental illnesses.
The suicide stats do make depressing reading however.
Thought I'd share, since it's interesting.