Mental illness is often linked with greater creativity, but it's time to stop buying into the misconception. Mental health disorders are serious issues that should receive proper medical treatment. Eschewing medication or therapy in order to be more artistically inclined isn't just a sign of warped priorities -- it's actually based on bad information. As Jacqueline Novak, comedian and author of How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows, points out, the idea that...
No, Untreated Mental Illness Isn't The Sign Of Artistic Genius
The Huffington Post - 17 Mar 2016 22:54
Mental illness is often linked with greater creativity, but it's time to stop buying into the misconception. Mental health disorders are serious issues that should receive proper medical treatment. Eschewing medication or therapy in order to be more artistically inclined isn't just a sign of warped priorities -- it's actually based on bad information. As Jacqueline Novak, comedian and author of How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows, points out, the idea that...
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