Medications might help, but there was the chance that they’d dull her senses and take away her artistic abilities. Though it shed light on some of her behaviors, she was also terrified of what it meant in the long run. Suddenly, all those manic highs that she’d once thought made her eccentric and endearing and whimsically artistic took on a scary new meaning. These are just some of the questions Ellen Forney found herself grappling with right before her 30th birthday, when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. What’s the difference between “crazy” and “creative”? Is there a difference? And if you take away the “crazy,” will you also be taking away the “creative”?
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