Comorbidity Between Multiple Personality and Depression: Creativity is More Related to the Dissociative Disorder than the Affective Disorder

Since novelists and poets, as a group, are more likely to have a history of being depressed—even suicidal—than the average person, it is conventional wisdom that depression and bipolar disorder may foster creativity.

Although creativity is impaired during severe depression, the experience is thought to enhance the artist’s sensibility. And the creative process may be therapeutic.

Conventional wisdom does not take into account what has been discussed in this blog: that artists may also have multiple personality. And it may be the multiple personality, not the depression, that is mostly responsible for the enhancement of creativity.