On a more serious note....

[days_unfolding]

Here's a link to an interesting article that Metro (the local free paper) ran about workers with bipolar disorder in Silicon Valley:
Friends in High Places

Here's a quote from the article that might address sunshine_two's comment about so many musicians seeming a bit off:

More recently, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison addressed this in a book that examines manic depression's relationship with the artistic temperament. Titled Touched by Fire (1993, Free Press: New York), it reviews studies that found depressive and manic-depressive illness in at least half of the well-known composers and visual artists reviewed. Another study found that 43 percent of writers interviewed suffered from bipolar disorder, compared with 10 percent among the control group.

Comments

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

Wow, isn't that interesting?

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Isn't it?

[bandicoot.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I wonder if the depressive part gives them the material and the manic part gets it written...

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

Sounds about right....