My Pdoc said that bipolarity and creativity are related , so if you take bipolarity meds , ur creativity will shrink . That's what my doctor said , but I think it's nuisance because I daydream all the time , I am an artist since I was 2,I found out that when my mania kicks in I draw a lot and when I'm stable I don't .

sigmond, you made me look ~smiles~ but I have no talent for such things, nor the inclination anymore, I once pencil drew a terri cloth towel draped over a shelf just to see how real it would turn out...you know...folds, shadows, texture...I recognized the result but, well my release came shortly after and I had other things to tend to.

Hi doorknob, why leave the house or shop on amazon when you can get it straight from the horse's mouth? She takes you back to square one. Seems very well organized step by step and anyone who ever wanted to draw can start from here. WARNING: the video is 2 hours long. Best of luck in getting your stroke back.

Betty Edwards / Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctkRwRDdajo

p.s. you can choose to pay for the book if you wish to, I just don't consider this theft. lol I found it.

thanks I did watch about 20 mins of that vid but I had to take a break as I couldn't focus on it. But I will try to watch the rest later.

I have many days like that too, it comes and goes like the weather....my creativity I mean.

On days where the creativity seems to be gone I do other things for a while...clean the house, surf the web for whatever, sometimes Pinterest gives me ideas that sparks up my creativity once again!!!

Have you checked out Pinterest at all....it's kinda fun and can maybe help you to when the creativity is low.

Hang in there and enjoy the better days...oxox

Well, don't come to me looking for your lost creativity!!!
Lord knows *I* don't have any!!!!

And therefore, I know how you feel.
It's horrible, when I think of what I used to be capable of and how little of it remains!!

You're doing the right thing trying, though!!!!

I hope you break through that creativity block and are able to once again happily lose yourself in your art!!!

Lithium
Lunesta
Lamictal
Topomax
Klonpin
other then a few days where I make obsene comments to the public and do otherwise embarrassing immature things before i can get at my klonopin. On those days if I stay home I do some creative things.

Otherwise the drugs take away alllllllllllllllllll creativity.

Havent you ever heard about that women who does the Activia adds she is BP and writes books. She has her doctor lessen her meds so she can get manic so she can write and then builds them back up.