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The Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness

I think we would be really remiss to not have a real open honest discussion about the link between creativity and mental illness. I feel like there's some prominent examples in the news right now, although that might be giving some people too much credit calling them geniuses. It does seem like there is a connection and it's a very interesting connection because it seems to be like up until recently, research has full blown mental illnesses is not conducive to creativity. And look, I want to just bring up Connie West as an example where a lot of the keeping mentalness at bay kind of being moderately high,. has led to some great, great music.

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