Inventor of Nylon

[Fred Bloggs]

Positively brilliant but seriously mentally ill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Carothers

[John Larkin]

Schizophrenia helps explore solution spaces. Bipolar disorder allows
extreme creativity peaks. Some people suffer for our progress.

[Anthony William Sloman]

Killing yourself is a symptom of depression, rather than schizophrenia. Manic-depression isn't schizophrenia.

Manic depressives do feel themselves to be more creative when manic than when depressed. but their relative effectiveness at exploring solution spaces hasn't been explored.

This doesn't inhibit pop psychologists from speculating about it and gullble twits like John Larkin from taking them seriously.

The brains involved are all messed up to some extent, but that's unlikely to make them work better.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

[bitrex]

Florid mania caused by bipolar can be a very strange condition to
behold, probably pretty scary for the patient suffering it also, depending.

Pacing, motor restlessness and non-stop stream-of-consciousness rambling
and ranting for hours until sometimes the patient has to be aggressively
sedated before they collapse from exhaustion.

Even mild cases of mania can strain human relationships, particularly
when the sufferer is seated next to you on a plane..

[Flyguy]

> Bozo Bill Sloman, Sydney

Hey Bozo, that's the pot calling the kettle black.

[Anthony William Sloman]

> Hey, that's the pot calling the kettle black.

Sewage Sweeper may think so, but he's so seriously messed up by senile dementia - it's difficult to imagine that he was born that stupid - that his opinion is inconsequential, not that he has the wit to realise this.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney