Creative the great unwashed — or at least those with degree in creative theatre of operations — have a 90 percent eminent chance of being diagnosed with schizophrenia than people working in non - creative fields , according to a newstudypublished inThe British Journal of Psychiatry . It also found that artistic types are 62 percent more probable to have bipolar disorder , and 39 percent more likely to have depression .
Researchers at King ’s College London mined a register of 4.5 million people in Sweden and found links between those who had meditate an aesthetic field ( like medicine or artwork ) and those who had been hospitalise for schizophrenia , bipolar upset , or depression , compared to the oecumenical population . Schizophrenia come about in about1 percentof the general population .
But that does n’t intend that creative thinking get mental sickness , asBig Thinkpoints out . As scientists like to say , correlativity does not adequate causation . In the current study , the researchers say the liaison can be explicate by the fact that the brain of creative people may officiate differently . " creative thinking often involve linking ideas or conception in ways that other people would n’t think of , " James MacCabe , the lead researcher , toldNew Scientist . " But that ’s like to how delusion bring — for good example , escort a connecter between the color of someone ’s clothes and being part of an MI5 [ UK security service ] conspiracy . "
This is n’t the first study to canvass the human relationship between creativity and mental illness — andnot everyoneis convinced that such a relationship survive — but the King ’s College researchers say the huge scope of their field of study is different . " High - quality epidemiologic grounds has been lacking , " they write .
A similarstudyof the Swedish population from 2011 found a liaison between bipolar disorder and those work in a creative theater , but found no connection for schizophrenic disorder or depression . And in 2015 , a controversialstudyby the chief executive officer of a biologic research company purportedly find that people work in creative subject were more likely to bear the inherited variants for genial illness . However , those variants only had a tiny issue on creative thinking — less than 1 percent .
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