Famous bipolar people and genius creativity!
Tags: bipolar, celebrities, famous, creativityWhen I am at work, I have a unique focus where I am “in the zone”. When I leave at the end of the day, it feels like I just got there. I never find myself watching the clock, and I love my job. The work that I do is my only priority, and you won’t find me wandering around the water cooler. Different supervisors and co-workers have commented on how I do a great job of getting my work done. I feel this can be contributed to being Bipolar, because for some reason the focus is beyond normal. Creativity also accompanies the focus, and I am always going “outside-the-box” with new ideas. I’m not trying to toot my own horn, I am just trying to make a point. Take a look at some of the famous/successful people who are bipolar.
From the Myspace group: Beautiful Bi-Polar
It is seldom recognized that having bipolar comes with the gifts of genius level creativity and problem solving abilities. Many important people throughout history were bipolar, including:
- Ludwig Beethoven
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Jimi Hendrix
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Ted Turner
- Ben Stiller
- Axl Rose
- Alvin Ailey
- Francis Ford Coppola
When I came across this list, I was surprised to see some of the celebrities on it. I am extremely impressed with Edgar Allen Poe, who knew? For more famous people, check out Wikipedia’s Bipolar List.
“It is often suggested that genius (or, at least, creative talent) and mental disorder are linked” – Wikipedia
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my cousin and i (we’re both bi-polar) have decided we’re going to get shirts made that say:
I might be CRAZY, but you’re STUPID!
hahaha…quirky way to highlight how our mental state can bring creativity and innovation!
I can relate to your intensity of focus. When I am slightly manic, I get very focused and have awesome creativity. People will say, “oh wow, that is so creative, how did you think of that?”…..But I don’t really try, it just comes to me when I’m not trying too hard and other times I’m not creative at all.
Creative & intelligent happens when you are manic. Your mind is racing so you do everything at hyperspeed. When I am manic, i can’t walk fast enough. it seems like everything is so slow. I get in the zone with my work which is good b/c i would go crazy if the day went by slowly.
My DD is so very creative. She’ll be famous one day. I also have a friend that “uses” her maina to work 12 hour shifts without tiring in a medical setting. It comes in handy, I guess. There are def perks to having an ability to zone in on what your doing. I honestly have to pry stuff out of my DD’s hands to get her to eat sometimes because she is so enthralled. I love her dedication, its wonderflly redfeshing comapred to the nighborhood kids that constantly complain, “Mom, I’m bored!”
How about Sting, Jim carry, Robin williams, and of cours Brittny Spesrs who has gone thur her illness out in the open, they are vary successfull. It’s still not something that I go around tell people because everything chages. I am a florest and when I’m going thur a manic phase my flowers look so much better, my ideas our outstanding.
I must have been on manic mode all of my life and never realized it. I knew two languages before kindergarten, and knew how to draw and paint in first grade. Inevitably, I had to go to an ARTS school to fit it. However, I apparently boarded a runaway train because as an adult, I became a US Marine, an NYPD officer, and an AirVac Medic with the US AirForce Reserve. After the non-stop accomplishments I was diagnosed with Bipolar…..and I was distraught and in disbelief. So I got into engineering and to my surprise picked it up as if I knew it all along. Unfortunately, along the way, I’ve been discriminated, ridiculed, stigmatized, and worst of all belittled. However, it didn’t take very long for me to realize that I was being targeted by people with fear, ignorance, self-conscious, and low self-esteem (constantly comparing themselves to me). After eight years I’ve learned to deflect and ignore the ignorance and be who I am – even if I have Bipolar stamped on my forehead, but it’s not an easy process. Thanks for this site!
Its not easy to believe.I’ll check the link to confirm.Thanks for this information and also for the link.
Bipolar gives me the sense of impossible to be possible. I feel like having a superpower that ordinary people don’t have.
But I wish I could live a regular life.
Wow! I am blessed with Asperger Syndrome what I realized 3 years ago ar age of 45. It did help me to realize that I am quite noral in world of blackmailers, charlatans.
Today, I do not regrett anything I ever tried and am trying. Am happy that unlike the majority I am able to see/understand world as it is. Even to really change it for good.
Since I am the inventor my name will stay in history. Definatelly. I did it against all odds forced by society to go way less traveled.
Go people go. Continue work your and the life stile as they are. It is rest who has to follow you and one day will.
thanks..
now i’m check to Wikipedia’s Bipolar List.
Wow!! I didnt know this info.. Its curious
i am also diagnosed having bipolar after an immersion in a rehabilatation center.. i dont know if that place do experimentation on me but when I experienced the illness it makes me realize all my unconcious creativity, i had lots of ideas, i felt that i had superpowers, i’m planning to make a book out of my believes and perception about the world, i hope i could make it!
Ben Stiller is bi-polar!? I had no idea. No wonder he is such a great actor then
haha
i am a bipolar creative caught in the web of highs and lows and fed up thoroughly with that.
I’m also bipolar, diagnosed last year but believed to have been adhd in my youth. I suffer from Bi-polar, Borderline, and Panic Disorders as a result of my traumatising childhood.