Crazy Artists?

Well, my scanner has officially gotten on my nerves, and on top of that I have Artist's Block. So, to take a break from my Artistic Obsessions blog without actually ending it, I'll discuss some stuff that I found kind of interesting. As I was browsing PsychologyToday.com, I came upon an article written by Emily Deans, MD, titled "Psychosis and the Creative Advantage." So, what's the point? Well...

For one, there's a stereotype that follows artist all around. Apparently, we're either depressed hopeless romantics, or somewhat crazy altogether. Artists are eccentric, weird even. Personally, I'm just going to leave it as we're stereotyped as different. But why?

Let's go back to schizophrenia for a second. How could it stay in the gene pool, withstand natural selection, if it were all that bad? I mean, other than schizophrenics getting very busy under the covers.
Well, according to Emily Deans, this could well be because of the creativity factor. Creativity allows you to survive in tricky situations, something that may be keeping schizophrenia around.

There are studies showing that schizophrenics are more likely to have creative children than just regular people off the street. In fact, people who have psychological disorders are more likely to have professions/occupations that are on the creative side. It doesn't really surprise me all too much that artist's are stereotypically eccentric now. And I can't really complain anyway, since schizophrenia and just psychological disorders run in my family. After all, I like my creativity. Sometimes there's just too much of it though, with thoughts flying through my head at 200 miles per hour.

But yeah, that's it for my "break" from drawing frantically and doodling listlessly. When too many thoughts are flying through my head I'm going to randomly post stuff on Blogger that may or may not be relevant at all.