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Creativity and Bipolar Disorder
- Source :
- Qualitative Health Research. 26:32-40
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- Bipolar disorder (BD) has been related to heightened creativity, yet core questions remain unaddressed about this association. We used qualitative methods to investigate how highly creative individuals with BD understand the role of symptoms and treatment in their creativity, and possible mechanisms underpinning this link. Twenty-two individuals self-identified as highly creative and living with BD took part in focus groups and completed quantitative measures of symptoms, quality of life (QoL), and creativity. Using thematic analysis, five themes emerged: the pros and cons of mania for creativity, benefits of altered thinking, the relationship between creativity and medication, creativity as central to one’s identity, and creativity’s importance in stigma reduction and treatment. Despite reliance on a small sample who self-identified as having BD, findings shed light on previously mixed results regarding the influence of mania and treatment and suggest new directions for the study of mechanisms driving the creative advantage in BD.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Community-Based Participatory Research
Bipolar Disorder
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Emotions
Identity (social science)
Developmental psychology
Creativity
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Quality of life (healthcare)
medicine
Humans
Bipolar disorder
Aged
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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Focus Groups
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Focus group
030227 psychiatry
Quality of Life
Female
medicine.symptom
Thematic analysis
Psychology
Mania
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Antipsychotic Agents
Qualitative research
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15527557 and 10497323
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Qualitative Health Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....51a03d8beff4e815796fd8d226d448f8