What's with all these bi-polar people?

[El Kabong]

People that are actors/artists/creative types have a greater number of mental disorders than people that are not by percentage. So that we have many that have mental disorders should be no surprise.

What is make them great at whatever art avenue they pursue also is or contributes to their mental instability.

Thoughts?

any of you see the tv programme stephen fry did about bi-polar? An actor I know a bit about - Jeremy Brett - was also diagnosed late in life a bi-p. Lots of them are afraid of taking drugs that 'smooth' them out, they've lived a long time that way and now you want to change who they are? What if they're no longer funny? etc

A lot of people on anti-depressants and mainly those on anti-psychotics stop taking their medicine due to side effects but also because if you look at the behavioral psychology of taking those pills a person is taking them to PREVENT symptoms rather than to subdue symptoms and well in layman's terms people take the medicine, they feel better, they decide they don't need to take the medicine OR they take the medicine, they feel the side effects, and they stop taking the medicine thinking the symptoms won't reccur.