Creativity and Mental Illness

                 


    Chris Corner, the founder of the band  'IAMX' and 'Sneaker Pimps'  is about to release a new single called 'METANOIA'. In an interview, he reveals that mental illness gives him a lot to write about.Apparently, his creativity is boosted by the struggles he goes through.He suffers from chronic insomnia and you can easily see the dark motives and the dark side of his soul in his videos. The melody you hear makes you want to question so many things and the feeling you get is just magical.The make up and the costumes match the dark  atmosphere of the videos.Finally, unlike all the darkness in a chaotic atmosphere we hear the sound of a fragile soul trying to reach out and find the meaning of this life.
    Ludvig van Beethoven,Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Isaac Newton,.They are all known to be suffered from mood disorders.Therefore it would be possible to say 'genius' is related to 'madness' somehow.Feelings cover an important part of the creativity process.
    We came to this life to feel.We carve out all the feelings in a pot, jut like the colorful scale of feelings as vivid as a rainbow's bows.We are not supposed to feel good or positive all the time.One of the things that made me angry when I was a kid was being forced to be happy all the time. I guess when you are not allowed to express how you feel,it becomes hard to learn how to deal with your feelings later on.You just feel guilty when your feelings all over the place and you are lost in translation,trying to figure out what is right to feel and what is not.It is okay to get depressed and it is totally okay to feel left out and as Imogen Heap says 'There is beauty in the breakdown'. We learn to avoid as a survival mechanism as kids but Is it possible to avoid all the pain and sufferings in this life?. We will be caught in the rain,lose our jobs or  loved ones, get sick,and eventually die alone.At some point in our lives everything will go out of control.We need to be ready for that but the so called positivity-even if it has its own advantages- which has been a popular term in the society for a long time doesn't prepare us for the catastrophic events in this life.So cry as hard as you can,be bored like hell,live in doubt and enjoy every piece of feeling you have while you can..
     Finally, mental illness isn't such a big deal  when we think of all the  brilliant artists suffering from various mental ilnesses but successfully turn them into creativity..