Talking about a study on Bipolar creativity

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Sign up to get updates about my book coming out in early 2022 https://bit.ly/3GWd1EHI came across a tweet this morning by crest, B, D. And they were talking about a new study that's coming out, or that they're starting on bipolar disorder, titled, do ambitious, and exploratory behaviors drive creativity in bipolar disorder in search of a mechanism. So they're searching for a mechanism of creativity, in bipolar disorder, in order to better support people's strengths or be more strengths based in somebody's recovery. And that sounds lovely. But I kind of wonder, is there a mechanism to creativity? Or is it that we're so mechanized as a humanity, not as one person with bipolar disorder or whatever, but it's sort of flabbergasting for someone to have something called an illness, a mental illness yet have this gift, this real capacity for creativity. So maybe by discovering a mechanism, they can support people in their recovery. But I don't know. If creativity can be mechanized, or if it's something that I'm not sure what I'm saying, but we're so mechanized as human beings, into functioning in society. And so many of us have lost our creativity throughout our lives. If we're even in touch with it at all, though, we likely were as children. And since creativity is so repressed and under expressed, because we're so mechanized as human beings, it's overexpressed in a few individuals, relatively few. And then they're said to have this mental illness called bipolar disorder yet, how is somebody with such a disorder? Such a defect, such an illness to be so wonderfully creative at times? So what is that all about? What is the mechanism? What in my mind? We were all wonderfully and perfectly creative as children, before we were mechanized. And then, as a mechanized adult, we look at people who have broken out of this mechanism or, or temporarily break out of this mechanism and are restored to natural, innate creativity and say, Well, what is the mechanism? When perhaps we need to look at the mechanisms that prevent us all from being that creative. It just seems to be the state of amnesia, and it's all that we forget how we came here as human beings, and it says, Do ambitious and exploratory behaviors drive this creativity. Well, we had ambitious and exploratory behaviors as children. And why don't we all have ambitious and exploratory behaviors, and if we all did, maybe a few relatively few wouldn't need to overcompensate for this because we are one consciousness. So if there's a natural capacity in humanity as a whole that is not unfolding and manifesting and expressing as that energy of creativity, then it's going to break through in some, because our brain is so full of mechanisms that block the creativity. creativity, creative, energy, nervous system, create, functioning, bipolar disorder, mechanism, problems, people, bipolar, glimpse, structure, learning, moving, explore, ego, mechanized, life, driveSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/bipolar_inquiry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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