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I agree that not everything that is broken needs to be fixed. I personally feel that there is way to much unnecessary "fixing" that occurs now in our "prozac nation".

But just gotta point out that the artists you mention all committed suicide, three of them before any real treatments existed for their conditions. Yes, these people were talented, creative, amazing, and very, very unhappy. I'd like to venture that if they could talk they might have something to say about the "costs" of their creativity.  I think our culture has created a romantic view of the "mad genius", that in actuality may not be so great. Kay Redfield Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind" addresses this very issue with great feeling and eloquence.

 Just a thought.

Sarah