Comments on: Creative people are crazy

By: shahzeb kazim

shahzeb kazim — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:02:39 +0000

Maybe the differ(a)nce between madness and normality is not that hard and fast as is supposed by late western civilization (whatever that means). In the past the creative talent had to literally go against the grain and so it was an uphill battle. It was not like the postmodern condition where for the first time in history you find young people opting for conservatism (which is sooooo boring). The indifference towards the mad, sick and slightly in-sane that you find today where at best they are put for life on drugs and at worst shut up in a lunatic asylum boinking off the walls in a straitjacket is a pathetic and truly soulless sight for sorry eyes. Wasn’t it R.D.Laing who said somewhere that we are all rapists and murderers (and God knows what else) even in this clinically sterilized and static bank-like clockwork society of the contemporary age. Madness and creativity are kissing cousins that can’t get enough of each other. Their surgical separation is not an easy task. Better to let nature do the healing than the psychiatrist’s couch. The former hardens you with its elemental forces while the latter only makes you an obese specimen going round in circles.

By: Crealda

Crealda — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:46:41 +0000

I’m a journalist, poet, creative writer, playwright, and basically anything you can think of that is associated with w o r d s. They are my best friends. I also sketch on occasion and take crazy-genius photographs & I concur, creative people are crazy, crazy people are creative. Whichever way works for you, works for me. I am currently working on a play and in my “crazy” mind, hard core inspiration only comes to me when I am in touch with spirits from an outside world. Yeah, I know it sounds koo-koo and I probably am…but I truly do believe that I was according to Lady Gaga “born this way!” With that being said, we (creative folk) can’t help the way we are. It is what it is…we are who we are and let’s hope we make magic with our creative gifts, inspire others, make people happy and try to stay as sane as we possible can.

By: Christopher Fuller

Christopher Fuller — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:56:06 +0000

I have seen Temple at a couple of conferences and she is just wonderful. Her honesty is very refreshing and more effective than many other so called experts. I also come away from her presentations feeling inspired to learn more about Autism and do better.

By: Tammara

Tammara — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:46:42 +0000

A wonderful movie I would highly recommend is “Temple Grandin”. It is about an autistic woman who actually went on to revolutionize an industry ( I won’t spoil it by telling you which one). She recently was a speaker at TED. She explains that autistic people just see the world in a different way and think a different way. Anyone interested in this subject will love this movie – Tammara Acerra

By: Pensive on the subject

Pensive on the subject — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:41:31 +0000

So yeah thanks guys, i feel a little better now

By: Pensive on the subject

Pensive on the subject — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:39:17 +0000

wow. Soooo i have just recently come to terms( out of denial) with the fact that i am a compulsive/ pathological liar, i have bad ADD i have bipolar disorder, have always suffered with depression. What has caused me the most turmoil is my fucking MESS with relationships like worse than anyone, so i think i might have borderline personality disorder too god knows. But this all makes sense. My father is a well acclaimed artist and hes bonkers and I’m insanely creative, im a writer, so hmmmm. Im 23 next month and have always promised myself that this is just temporary and that ill be superb in the next few months when i just stop doing what is deemed so wrong, and start doing whats right, but i have lost all mean of tust in myself. I have this unmistakable pattern of actions i commit that show me what i want to be and what i am are not only opposite but sanity seems unreachable and the whole thing seems out of my control. Ha and im left handed, Sundial. Ive been consciously not so much subconsciously (but who knows) trying to tolerate the fact that some of my disorders are permanent, no matter how much i deny it even now while im typing im saying to myself that it really isnt permanent but my research tells me otherwise. But what this article triggered in me is a good thing i think, see cause i have a massive self loathing problem, but if i had never been the least bit crazy, would i have ever been the least bit creative? Would i have been brilliantly creative? My creativity is one of my most solid traits I hold as safe haven for my ravenously ill judgemental psyche. And if being “normal” would make me alot more uncreative, it almost makes being me woth it. And Michael Sevilla i like your angle.

By: dildar dewan

dildar dewan — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:00:19 +0000

the source of creativity and craziness is one and the same…a fault in the filtering process. while not exactly peaceful this chaos is an ideal ocean for catching big fish if you have the right equipment. most philosophers and poets have ridden the dangerous waves and believe me they have built out of the shipwrecked remains of their once stable lives the rafts that have kept them afloat. its all just a matter of thought management. or striking a delicate balance between selectivity and schizophrenia. open the floodgates too much and u have a full-fledged nervous disorder on your hands. use drugs and you bump off the creative activity. maybe a mystic and a schizophrenic differ only in the fact that the mystic never says that he is a schizophrenic and hence is never labeled in the first place.

By: Preeti Edul

Preeti Edul — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:05:13 +0000

All crazy people definitely want this to be true! I’m raining my hand for sure

By: umbrellas

umbrellas — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:31:02 +0000

thanks for your share “ and
I think these numbers are crap, only 18% of businessmen have mental disorders? BS. Narcissistic Personality Disorder mixed in with control issues is a REQUIREMENT for management too !i love umbrellas very much

By: zina

zina — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:21:52 +0000

he may be right but i think creative people are not crazy but “people” think thry are crazy simply because they are creating new ideas which seems abnormal for them because they do not nknow what deas “creativity” mean.