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Martha Stewart on her
high energyMy work is my distraction. And that's a fabulous thing.... I can still sleep.. my three or four hours.
> newyorker.com 2003-01-27
In third grade I won the contest at the public library for being able to get a score of a hundred on a reading test.. based on the numbers of books you read, and the amount that you retained from those books... [and] at a very young age I was allowed to go into the adult library.
> Academy of Achievement Interview achievement.org
> "..filled with energy... flooded with ideas... driven, restless,
and unable to keep still... often works on little sleep..."
-- from list of traits from book The Hypomanic Edge
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..filled with energy... flooded with ideas... driven, restless, and unable to keep still... often works on little sleep... feels brilliant, special, chosen, perhaps even destined to change the world... can be euphoric... becomes easily irritated by minor obstacles... is a risk taker...
John D. Gartner, Ph.D. - in his book The Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between
(A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America~ ~ ~ ~
It seems counterintuitive that severe depression or melancholy could be associated with artistic inspiration and productivity.
The milder manic states and their fiery energies would seem at first thought to be more obviously linked. ...
Hypomania and mania, those high energy, high voltage states characterized by elated or irritable mood, sleeping far less than usual, extremely reckless, impulsive behaviors, grandiosity, expansiveness; these hypomanic or mild manic moods often generate ideas and associations, propel contact with life and other people, induce frenzied energies and enthusiasms and cast an ecstatic, rather cosmic hue over life.
Melancholy, on the other hand, tends to force a slower pace, cools the ardor, and puts into perspective the thoughts, observations, and feelings generated during more enthusiastic moments. Mild depression can act as a ballast. It can also serve a critical editorial role for work produced in more fevered states. Depression prunes and sculpts, it also ruminates and ponders and ultimately subdues and focuses thoughts. It allows structuring at a detailed level of the more expansive patterns woven during mania.
Kay Redfield Jamison [Johns Hopkins Univ]
from her book:Touched With Fire: Manic Depressive Illness
and the Artistic Temperament
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Hypomania and
Excitabilities
In
developing his book The
Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between
The list has intriguing parallels with OE [overexcitabilities / excitabilities] - for example, Elizabeth Mika's article Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration includes a description of Psychomotor OE - "an excess of energy manifesting in rapid talk, restlessness, preference for violent games, sports, pressure for action, or delinquent behavior.." In his book, Gartner celebrates a number of entrepreneurs [e.g. movie moguls] whose success and contributions to the culture may be attributed to a great extent to their hypomanic attributes. Douglas Eby..........> more on excitabilities on page Dabrowski / advanced development |
 .. .. "Edison was another great hypomanic American... an inexhaustible furnace of ideas... He often didn't sleep until he passed out on the floor after working forty-eight hours straight." [from book The Hypomanic Edge] |
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[What do you think the biggest misconceptions are out there about mental illness?]
It’s not all bad.
The manic end of is a lot of fun. I try to encourage people to envy my mania. A lot of it is just fantastic.
Mental illness sounds so horrendous and it can be. But it’s kind of a broad term. People that are depressed have mental illness.
I don’t think [mental illness] describes it well, the range of it. A lot of what’s wrong with me is, I feel like, a bank error in my favor. It can be fantastic.
Whenever I read about it in other books, it’s very, very heavy and awful. I was trying to get to the positive side. (laughs) [referring to her novel The Best Awful]
Carrie Fisher - from moviepoopshoot.com interview by Josh Horowitz, February 27, 2004
> more quotes by Fisher on several pages of this site - including:
mental health : perspectives.....depression:: page 4
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"It kind of goes against the common assumption, but many people who are inclined to hypomanic or manic symptoms have an underlying resilience," said Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. "They may get trashed by their peers, laid low, but they respond very strongly."
"In a new book, "Exuberance," Dr. Jamison argues that flights of joyous energy similar to hypomanic states frequently accompany scientific and literary inspiration.
> from article Hypomanic? Absolutely. But Oh So Productive!
by Bendedict Carey, The New York Times, March 22, 2005
> more on the book "Exuberance" on the page passion
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 Alden
Cass, a therapist with a practice in Manhattan, [has clients who] make
their living from the market: bankers, brokers, traders, financial
advisers.
They're a special breed. ''These guys love risk,'' says Cass. ''They eat it for breakfast.'' His clients think, talk, and act fast. They need just a few hours' sleep. They're prone to reckless behavior, sexual promiscuity, extravagant spending. They exhibit all the signs, that is, of what psychologists call ''hypomania'': an energetic, ebullient state that is a milder form of the mania associated with bipolar illness. Cass claims that the majority of his patients are hypomanic, and though he treats them for the problems that hypomania can produce - depression, burnout, substance abuse, wrecked relationships - he also recognizes its advantages. |
''These
people have a boldness and a self-confidence that sets them apart from
the average citizen,'' Cass asserts. ''Hypomania is great for
business.''
John D. Gartner, a psychologist at Johns Hopkins University, agrees. In his new book The Hypomanic Edge Gartner contends not only that most of today's successful entrepreneurs and businesspeople are hypomanic, but that many of our history's leading figures, such as Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford, had the condition as well. The United States has more hypomanics than other countries, Gartner claims, and these people are largely responsible for the nation's power and prosperity. >
from article The hypomanic American - by Annie Murphy Paul, > photo: Giovanni Ribisi as a stock broker in Boiler Room (2000) |
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 The
way producer David
O. Selznick
talked got him fired from MGM.
He "engaged in violent arguments" with senior MGM producer Hunt Stromberg... Selznick strode over to Paramount... B.P. Schulberg gave Selznick a two-week trial "against my better judgment." Selznick.. when his two weeks were almost up.. had annoyed the boss and done nothing to distinguish himself. Selznick seized on a memo announcing a contest to title seventeen new films. He read all seventeen scripts and submitted suggestions under pseudonyms. All seventeen of his suggestions won. Schulberg got the point: Selznick may have been the most arrogant young man he had ever met, but he was also among the most brilliant. Schulberg made Selznick his executive assistant. /// |
[Selznick
later quit, and then was given charge of film studio RKO.]
In the excitement of finally being able to make movies his way, without interference, his brain exploded with ideas, recalled [his wife] Irene: "Ideas were hatched at an incredible speed, yet they tumbled out so wonderfully structured. He had such a fertile brain the alternatives were endless. He jus emptied his mind as he went... He left for the studio, his pockets jammed with endless bits of paper." One sleepless night, David couldn't find any writing paper. The next morning he brought memos to department heads written on a roll of toilet paper. > from book The Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America - by John D. Gartner, Ph.D. David O. Selznick (1902-1965) produced Gone with the Wind; A Star Is Born; Anna Karenina; The Third Man; Spellbound and many other films. > related book : Memo from David O. Selznick : The Creation of "Gone with the Wind" and Other Motion Picture Classics, as Revealed in the Producer's Private Letters, Telegrams, Memorandums, and Autobiographical Remarks > more on filmmakers on : books: biographies.....filmmaking |
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Georgia O'Keeffe One particular teacher, Elizabeth Willis encouraged her to work at her own pace and afforded her opportunities that the other students felt unfair. At times she would work intensely, and at other times she would not work for days.
When it was brought to the attention of the principal, she would reply..."When the spirit moves Georgia, she can do more in a day than you can do in a week"
> from Ellen's Place bio ... > more on page : Georgia O'Keeffe
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 Energy,
drive, cockeyed optimism, entrepreneurial and religious zeal, Yankee
ingenuity, messianism, and arrogance -- these traits have long been
attributed to an “American character.”
But given how closely they overlap with the hypomanic profile, they might be better understood as expressions of an American temperament, shaped in large part by our rich concentration of hypomanic genes. If a scientist wanted to design a giant petri dish with all the right nutrients to make hypomanic genius flourish, he would be hard-pressed to imagine a better natural experiment than America. /// |
Because of its origins, America has an abundance of people with hypomanic temperaments. And it has made good use of them by giving them freer rein, more opportunity, and greater respect than they have received elsewhere. > from book The Hypomanic Edge : The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America - by John D. Gartner, Ph.D. > photo of Disneyland castle from PBS site for program based on book They Made America: Two Centuries of Innovators from the Steam Engine to the Search Engine - by Harold Evans |
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 In 2001, Jane Pauley spent nearly three weeks in a hospital for
treatment of bipolar disorder, the anchor reveals in her autobiography,
Skywriting...The illness, according to the excerpt, was triggered by a rare reaction to prescription drugs: steroids being taken for a stubborn case of hives. "The steroids had the desired effect -- the hives subsided -- but as a side effect of the drugs, I was revved!" With later drug therapies, including more steroids and an antidepressant, her moods swings intensified, from sheer exhaustion to boundless energy. |
"My tides were fluctuating -- back and
forth, back
and forth -- sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning."
She entered New York Hospital in the spring, under an assumed name, during a leave of absence from Dateline NBC. Today, she's off steroids and free of mood swings, thanks to lithium. She's happy to share her story and talk about the illness. "I was strange only for me," she writes. "New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in." from Pauley
reveals struggle with bipolar disorder - photo at right
from The Jane Pauley Show site |
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