Manic people like Robin Williams can appear to be very intelligent.
But psychosis damages the brain.
I still haven’t recovered 100 percent.
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Robin Williams killed himself because of a degenerative brain disease. Sad as heck.
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Yes it is sad. 1
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maybe thats your way of coping with the episode you had. sure it feels better to think if you were on some sort of genius level at the time.
but the reality, we got crunched.
I do think there is something to harnessing a bit of a hypomanic creativity though.
divergent thinking is probably stronger in people who have had psychosis.
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I agree to an extent.
Psychosis increases your brain’s analytical capacity and allows you to connect concepts that you might not otherwise realise are related. Just like the mind of a genius. Part of the reason for this is that during psychosis your brain’s filters are stripped away so you become aware of much more stimuli.
However - as a result of this, most (if not all) people who are having a psychosis, experience apophony (a dellusional epiphany) - where they believe that two concepts are connected or related that almost any other person who is not experiencing mental illness would not be able to see, and that can be invalidated through scientific inquiry. Ie; many of the beliefs that are formed are false / dellusional / not real.
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