Creative due to schizophrenia?

Some people say that schizophrenia took their creativity and some people say the medicine killed their creativity. I say schizophrenia made me creative even off the meds. What do you think?

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I can say that it made me even more creative… after psychosis I truly got some new ideas. Idk why

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Ya, I can say that. I’m more in ‘left field’ and go on tangents a lot now.

I had no faith and limited empathy before. I believe in God now…

I don’t draw, but I did art classes in group therapy. It was hard and I became more social and less introverted.

I always valued rational and critical thinking. I taught myself Sudoku which is analytical.

I became a much better and nicer person because of schizophrenia. I’m way more patient now and empathetic and kinder and nicer.

There’s a point where I think ‘too much creativity’ is a bad thing. Like anything in life, I suppose.

I used to draw and color growing up as a kid. I loved it. I was good, but not great.

I lost a lot of functioning, suffered over the years, and lost my intelligence or lost about 10 IQ points. Felt like dementia to be honest…

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I’m so creative I created all world

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I think math and science can be creative. You know like those creative geniuses…

Steve Jobs was a creative Genius and mover and shaker. He was a business and marketing Genius…didn’t do hard core coding though…didn’t need to. He’s a 1 in a billion success.

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I really can’t say because I don’t know the alternative life if I never had gotten psychosis.

I’d like to think I’m more creative this way because creativity is important

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I suffer from creative or delusional thinking ie thought disorder. I live and breathed it, I guess.

I started getting into time travel stuff. Stuff that is either not real or impossible or sci-fi. In my opinion, things can be creative. The best students and puzzle solvers tend to be creative I think.

I never had thoughts about time travel until I got sick from Salvia and Pot lol. I started thinking or believing in God or a higher power even.

I even have alien delusions too…starting to get better and gain insight and realize it’s something else entirely…

It doesn’t help that I read, watch, and research this stuff to my own sickness and detriment.

I’m into string theory and quantum mechanics now, but don’t know the stuff. I like listening and reading about it and hearing about parallel universes and the impossible and different dimensions.

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Schizophrenia turned my creativity on its head, and then made the fiction part of it very real. I would say overall, though, that it severely limited my capacity to create things.

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