Creativity and mental illness

Photo of Virginia Woolf

Creativity is often part of a mental illness, with writers particularly susceptible, according to a study of more than a million people. More@http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19959565

Troubled minds

• Novelist Virginia Woolf, who wrote A Room of One's Own and To the Lighthouse, had depression and drowned herself
• Fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote The Ugly Duckling and The Little Mermaid, had depression
• US author and journalist Ernest Hemingway, who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, had depression and killed himself with a shotgun
• Author and playwright Graham Greene, who wrote the novel Brighton Rock, had bipolar disorder