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Emotional Health & Creative People
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As musician Alanis Morissette points out, “We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value as happiness,
Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and educator who teaches about the value of embracing our emotions and developing emotional health.
She has commented, “In my work with emotions, I focus on the intelligence, gifts, and skills that every emotion brings to you." 
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The tone of many responses to the death of Robin Williams support the insidious "Crazy Artist" mythology: that artistic creativity depends on mental disorder. But, as psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman commented, his “comedic genius was a result of many factors, including his compassion, playfulness, divergent thinking, imagination, intelligence, affective repertoire, and unique life experiences. In contrast, his suicide was strongly influenced by his mental illness. This romanticism of mental illness needs to stop.”
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Introduced by Neseret Bemient, host of The Mental Health Telesummit, creativity coach and therapist Eric Maisel, PhD talks about "official" attitudes of many health professionals about some forms of human experience, such as depression, that get labeled as mental illness.
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Eric Maisel: “When we fear that we do not matter or that our efforts do not matter, we get depressed.
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"I have thought Too long and darkly, till my brain became, In its own eddy boiling and o'erwrought, A whirling gulf of phantasy and flame..." -- Lord Byron
Depression usually yields nothing but suffering. The same is true of mania. However, often depression, especially in its phases of resolution, does contribute to a creative spurt, as the individual resolves, at least for the time being, the underlying emotional conflicts. //
Related page of mine: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Depression-and-Creativity/399254776768105 ~~ Byron gives a vivid description of intellectual, imaginational, emotional overexcitabilites, or just excitabilites. One post on the topic: Excitabilities and Gifted People – an intro by Susan Daniels. http://highability.org/537/
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Are high ability people more vulnerable to suicide? What are the impacts of high sensitivity, existential dread, pressure to achieve etc?
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Andrew Solomon is a novelist, journalist and historian. At 31 he descended into a major depression. He was helped by family support and therapy. He writes:
“These experiences of darkness make the light more beautiful, that the pain of being acutely depressed allows you to experience an unbelievable happiness in every day when you aren’t depressed and a sense that each of those days is a gift. So that’s the real message of hope, is that you can get better.”
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This romanticism of mental illness needs to stop.
Douglas Eby's insight:
James Thurman Webb, PhD commented in a Facebook post about Robin Williams: "I have no doubt that he was a highly gifted man who struggled with existential depression. His intensity, sensitivity, and search for life meaning, characteristic of so many gifted people, permeated his life." Intensity was an almost defining quality of Williams (and many gifted artists and other people). Polish Psychiatrist and Psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski defined this intensity as overexcitability: an abundance of physical, sensual, creative, intellectual and emotional energy. As Dr. Webb and others have pointed out, intensity and other characteristics of giftedness may be misinterpreted as pathology. One of my articles: What do you do with your intensity? [which links to a number of related articles] http://talentdevelop.com/2475/what-do-you-do-with-your-intensity/
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"Lee Thompson Young in a scene from the TNT series "Rizzoli & Isles." Los Angeles police say his death is being investigated as a suicide"
Another article: 'A friend said a report linking Young's depression to his religion was "a gross mischaracterization."
'A better explanation, the friend said, is that Young was drawn to religion because he yearned for enlightenment and may have been "too sensitive" for this world.'
Douglas Eby's insight:
See many posts related to creative people on my site Depression and Creativity http://depressionandcreativity.org/ ~~~ Post on my Highly Sensitive site: Winona Ryder: “Maybe I’m too sensitive for this world.” http://highlysensitive.org/13/winona-ryder-maybe-im-too-sensitive-for-this-world/
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By Eric Maisel. "Although we’ve lost this way of looking at personality, at one time it was assumed that a full quarter of human beings were born “melancholic.” Whether that view is accurate or not there’s no reason to assume that we don’t come into the world with some hard-wired proclivities, including for some of us a vulnerability to sadness."
Douglas Eby's insight:
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