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The Psych Report: The Price of Creativity

Psych Report, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor Bezane January 12, 2015

The tortured artist. There’s a reason why we hear that cliché over and over again. It’s true. Many of the greatest artists, authors and musicians have lived with mood disorders, and subsequently addiction. The two seem to go hand in hand.

Bipolar Geniuses: Edgar Allan Poe

Famous Manic-Depressives, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor Bezane November 17, 2014 4 Comments

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank – God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”