Feeling, thinking, and creativity in bipolar disorder: Terence Ketter at TEDxConstitutionDrive

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @pixie7349
    @pixie7349 3 года назад +65

    I draw, paint, crochet and am learning to tattoo. Bipolar Type II. Wish there was more creative jobs that you wouldn’t have to struggle finding a job in.

    • @tyrajhn
      @tyrajhn 2 года назад

      I’m hiring in mine.

  • @buttercup141312
    @buttercup141312 2 года назад +24

    This is absolutely fascinating. I’ve always love writing since I was a child and would come up with stories and write write write. I’ve finished three main fiction books and have many many drafts of unfinished stories. Drawing and painting is another pass-time for me.
    The depression to mania ratio really grabbed my attention because though I have more creative stamina when I’m manic, I find that there’s more depth to my creativity when I’m depressed. My emotions are deeper and my fiction hold more richness when I’m depressed. Unfortunately, I rarely have the energy to do anything creative when I’m depressed.
    Mania gives me vivid dreams, some of which I’ve written into short stories. I actually woke up and wrote out one a few minutes ago!

  • @sabrinareyes6897
    @sabrinareyes6897 2 года назад +11

    "..people with major depressive disorders, they're pretty good at not liking stuff."
    This cracked me up as a Bipolar II and MDD person

  • @4psuche911
    @4psuche911 6 лет назад +81

    I haven't been able to stop writing poetry since I was 12 (about 11 years now). Lines and titles and sometimes even whole poems pop into my head and I have to write them down. I also write nonfiction essays.
    I was diagnosed with bipolar II earlier this year and my writing is why I want to be moderately medicated and not zombified.
    Nice talk, but whatever you do.. DO write poetry! 😁

    • @stalemateib3600
      @stalemateib3600 3 года назад +3

      I enjoy writing poetry too (and probably have bipolar). But it may take awhile before I can finish the second poetry book.

    • @4psuche911
      @4psuche911 3 года назад +3

      @@stalemateib3600 what a coincidence! I’m on my second book as well. I’m trying really hard to get the first one published.
      On the possible bipolar, I’d make an appointment with a professional to see if that’s what you have. It’s always better to know.
      I wish you luck with your poetry and diagnosis, friend.

    • @torosalvajebcn
      @torosalvajebcn 2 года назад +1

      Could you post here a few verses, or a short poem?

    • @4psuche911
      @4psuche911 2 года назад +2

      @@torosalvajebcn sure, I already have this one copyrighted, so no biggie. It’s not only short, it’s my shortEST (also a fun one, though, because it’s essentially a puzzle):
      ********
      *Choose*
      Dis (as
      Com)
      agree men
      t (placenc
      y) :is to:
      (Enslave)
      Free (men
      t) dom.
      ********
      Got more if you’re interested and I actually just started selling the book this is in. So, I can post that too, if you’d like. Either way I’d be happy to oblige. Thanks for being curious about my work, means a lot on a day like today. 😊✌️

    • @torosalvajebcn
      @torosalvajebcn 2 года назад

      @@4psuche911 disagreement is to freedom as complacency is to enslavement?

  • @1974gladiateur
    @1974gladiateur 5 лет назад +83

    I am a bipolar and it’s not easy.

  • @CakePopClara
    @CakePopClara 4 года назад +49

    im b ipolar and cannot concentrate on this man

    • @flyingdumpling5204
      @flyingdumpling5204 4 года назад +4

      I feel your struggle... Try upping the speed of the video. It can help to concentrate, because you get more information per less time.

    • @miked9596
      @miked9596 4 года назад

      I feel the same

    • @miked9596
      @miked9596 4 года назад +2

      So boring dude

    • @eraybulgaria
      @eraybulgaria 3 года назад +2

      Not diagnozed with bipolar, but this is annoyingly slow

    • @joshuacarter4590
      @joshuacarter4590 3 года назад

      Sounds like ADD not BP.

  • @kristinemcummins
    @kristinemcummins 3 года назад +4

    Dr. Ketter is who diagnosed me in 1998-99.

  • @debblackmore7460
    @debblackmore7460 2 года назад +5

    I have bipolar manic depression I have hypoxia brain injury I died 26minutes spent weeks months in coma rehab hospital learning talk walk again been a recovery massive discovery never ever give up on yourself many will never yourselves keep going doing amazing things stay strong stay positive stay safe everyone takecare great speech well done sending love from headway Nottingham UK takecare x

  • @kaitglynn2472
    @kaitglynn2472 5 лет назад +17

    Well this certainly explains why I’m a published poet. True poetry is for the listener.

    • @kaitglynn2472
      @kaitglynn2472 5 лет назад +2

      I would like to see more of his data and numbers. It seems a bit bias. Also, his flowery-veiled academic language could be better. I feel bad for the students he leeched off of. (Academic here, English BA, MAT and Philosophy BA, - grad student.)

  • @ryanburks9142
    @ryanburks9142 7 лет назад +40

    Had to watch it twice because it was very dull and hard to pay attention the first time. But I’m not hear to bash the man. Hes obviously better at the research part rather than explaining it to an audience. This video was helpful though. I am starting to find out I very well may be Bipolar and this showed me a lot. The disorder has potentially made me more intuitive, open minded, and slightly more depressed than normal as well. But the main thing is that medication meant to stabilize a mood may not effect the creativity levels of the brain. Thanks

    • @ngawadszulu
      @ngawadszulu 7 месяцев назад

      Not me reading your comment,then realising reading your comment is me dissociating because of how boring this is. Then laughing so hard because I call such moments "Catching my bipolar 2"😂😂.
      Thank you for your comment, the fact that I would have hated myself for not being able to watch a "simple video" forgetting that my brain is this way is crazy❤.
      Off I go to rewatch😂

  • @catc6012
    @catc6012 3 года назад +18

    I'm bipolar 2, and while I respect anyone researching the topic, I have to say that the low amount of data is disappointing. my takeaway from this was simply the following...
    SUMMARY: There are some people who are 'creative types' and share certain characteristics. Some people with bipolar are also creative types, perhaps moreso than average, though this is based on scant research.

  • @terralynn4027
    @terralynn4027 2 года назад +12

    I am BP1 and I have so many things I want to do that I just can’t do only 1. I have a hard time keeping my thoughts straight. My mind won’t shut down & often is always creating but only thinking…. Seems odd.
    I also play multiple instruments and love to write but I only do so when I’m manic when I’m depressed I do nothing but cry and sleep. Working on getting the right meds :/

    • @azharsharif8521
      @azharsharif8521 Год назад

      I am by polar one same we are one boat my sympathy with you Azhar Pakistan take care thanks

  • @0129581s
    @0129581s 4 года назад +22

    The final question i cannot give an answer to is: how many years of my life creativity has eaten away?
    Like a car, if the engine is run at high rpm, it usually shortens its life.

    • @cory99998
      @cory99998 4 года назад +1

      Why do you feel that creativity is shortening your life?

    • @bochnik9929
      @bochnik9929 3 года назад +6

      @@cory99998 for example you cant go to sleep bcz you have so many ideas that are poping in your head

    • @cory99998
      @cory99998 3 года назад +1

      @@bochnik9929 then you sleep a little less, I doubt thats going to degrade your life that much. If it does then maybe see a psychologist

    • @TanguyBlanchard
      @TanguyBlanchard 2 года назад

      @@cory99998it does, not sleeping enough gives you brain damage. If it happens often it’s definitely taking years off your life

  • @djglenn
    @djglenn 4 года назад +38

    I write a lot, that's funny that most of us do that

    • @va2773
      @va2773 3 года назад +1

      Thought the same thing

  • @vauoia6064
    @vauoia6064 Год назад +1

    I have been hospitalised, in therapy and clinically diagnosed -‘multiple times by different psychiatrists, psycho diagnostics, psychiatry ward-with schizoaffective bipolar disorder. My talent for drawing and ability to imagine has been the wildcard for surviving, thriving but mostly, suffering as well because of it. The majority of daily life is withdrawn, lonely as I don’t connect well with most people. Because of the mood disorder, I also have fluctuations in being capable to express my ideas into physical work. I used to draw from morning to evening everyday… The older I get, the more difficult it is. I am happy if I get 3-4 full days of creative explosion in 😔 luckily my ideas are still sharp and acknowledged in the professional artistic world but I fear for the future - if the decline remains. I hold on to it with dear heart.

  • @mae8861
    @mae8861 5 лет назад +12

    I’ve been totally addicted to learning about bipolar because one of my friends is and is in total denial and therefore does not need mood stabilizers. But her shrink gives her antidepressants when she is in the depressed mood swing. Very strange disease this bipolar thing.

    • @AngelAngel-nj6ef
      @AngelAngel-nj6ef 4 года назад +4

      She will need mood stabilizers rather than antidepressives others wise she will still go up & still end up going BK down again, first thing with bipolar we all think where OK & everyone els has the problem so she will never admit to it until she is stable & realizes that she is bipolar, its like being a yoyo hope that helps :-)

    • @mae8861
      @mae8861 4 года назад

      Melissa Brown won’t happen I give up. Trying to work with her is too draining to me. But thanks

    • @AngelAngel-nj6ef
      @AngelAngel-nj6ef 4 года назад +1

      @@mae8861 the only person that can help her is herself, she will realize that one day :-)

    • @magzeyhq379
      @magzeyhq379 4 года назад +1

      im bipolar type 2 with adhd, my shrink says that most people with pipolar doesnt respond at all to antidepressants so its no use to give them, it is better to eat a mood stability drug everyday, i do it and it works alot better, ive tried alot of medicine until i found what works best for me, what often works is actually being a bit hard headed with the shrink and saying that a medicine doesnt work "for me" when it doesnt feel right. However it takes time for some drugs to land often times longer than what it says on the carton. hope this may help you, best wishes

  • @-3lory
    @-3lory 3 года назад +1

    started writing children's books after I learned how to read and it has never stopped...now have problems due to medication....Creativity has stopped

  • @miked9596
    @miked9596 4 года назад +5

    I have bi polar 1. This guy reaches no one

    • @AntonioAio
      @AntonioAio 4 года назад +2

      same here man. Agree.

  • @Clevertechly
    @Clevertechly 6 месяцев назад

    Watch at 1.5 or 1.75 speed. It helps. Tl;dr: there are 4 parts to creativity: access to negative feelings, openness to new experience, intuition, and up and down feelings. You don’t need to have a mood disorder to be eminently (productively) creative, you just need this combination in roughly equal parts of your personality.

  • @CorinaChirilaArtist
    @CorinaChirilaArtist 10 месяцев назад

    I don't know about bipolar but I know people with the COMT Met/Met genotype are creative, workaholic (they can work from 7 AM to 3 am next day without feeling tired), overproductive and have an above areage IQ. I have this good genotype and I made more than 7000 paintings until now. There were times when I had 3 jobs and I was still painting and there are many paintings that I've made during the night before the exam and I was successful at that exam too.

  • @drraanamahmood5636
    @drraanamahmood5636 3 года назад +3

    I'm not bipolar but couldn't focus and concentrate, my brain was in continuous torture for 30 years ! I get bore easily.

  • @MuhammadsMohel
    @MuhammadsMohel 3 года назад +2

    I write so much because of my bi polar that I ended up making movies

  • @einsibongo
    @einsibongo 10 лет назад +13

    Could have been talking about me there in the end, but isn't that the case for most? I feel like I can only set one norms for my emotions, those that I specifically feel. Are there folks out there that are just fine. People who enjoy their life and go on without any worry, people who do not over-think future-, current- and past-encounters? Is there anybody out there...?

    • @einsibongo
      @einsibongo 9 лет назад

      I've been meaning to try Mindfulness, have you heard anything about that?

    • @amyr6837
      @amyr6837 6 лет назад

      You are really scary at being human Ketter.

  • @josephnardone1250
    @josephnardone1250 7 лет назад +6

    Interesting talk but he was completely wrong about the paintings hanging in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Museums show good works of art and at times superior works of art but not all hanging works are noteworthy. Museums display works very often that are contemporary and current to show what the art scene is like at the current time. In a museum, not all painting are equal; there are better paintings than other paintings. In fact, since museums exist on donations, there are very often complaints that what is shown is "corporate art." That is art that is more or less sanctioned by the corporate benefactors. For instance, the art news reported some years back that a painting hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (Met Museum), which wasn't a very good work, was there because a multi-million dollar donation was made and a requirement for the donation was that this painting be hung in the museum. By having a painting hang in such a museum, the artist can claim whatever and raise the price of his works. Not saying that great and superior works are in the museums but they are not the be all and the end all of creative epitome.

    • @lifesoboring1
      @lifesoboring1 6 лет назад

      Joseph Nardone Can you tell me the name of the painting and artist?

  • @richardcrompton6009
    @richardcrompton6009 4 года назад +24

    I wish the speaker was more manic and engaging...

  • @Mr_X444
    @Mr_X444 4 года назад +3

    I'm bipolar and I don't get what he's tryna say cause its like he already said it and he's just repeating the same thing almost.

  • @richraymond9934
    @richraymond9934 3 года назад +1

    I never told one person in my life including my girlfriend of a year that I. Was bipolar,,nobody knew and. Knobody said a thing about my moods,,stay away from these doctors don't. Tell anybody anything and live out your life,,,i was a double site supervisor for 16 years

  • @Motivationlife-cz9fk
    @Motivationlife-cz9fk 7 лет назад +2

    thank you!

  • @bipolargamechanger
    @bipolargamechanger Год назад

    It seems like some bipolar people are meant to be artists but choose the wrong vocation and if they went the right way, they might be a healthy control.
    Also, the negative feeling may be important because it motivates one to change something, make it better through creativity. The positive and openness in thinking is needed to create something new and it needs to be intuitive otherwise it’s plain old regurgitation of thoughts which by definition is not creative. There must be a dissatisfaction in what is and an ability to make something new. This also takes sensitivity of perception and acting spontaneously without complacency. From my investigation there is reduced latent inhibition as increased exploration which may seem irrelevant and useless bit accumulates subconsciously as a creative repertoire to draw from.

  • @ronnieevers5115
    @ronnieevers5115 7 лет назад +61

    making fun of others health issues is a special kind of sickness,,,

    • @francisgallant1479
      @francisgallant1479 7 лет назад

      Ronnie Evers who's making fun of who?

    • @99994797
      @99994797 6 лет назад

      Francis Gallant He said "do not write poetry.

    • @Anna-qz6xw
      @Anna-qz6xw 5 лет назад +2

      I wasn’t comfortable with him saying “cut off your ear creativity”

    • @richardcrompton6009
      @richardcrompton6009 4 года назад +4

      Yes it is. Humour isn't making fun as you call it. Humour is complex of course, but it's also a great indicator of intellectual ability. I have bipolar 2 and being able to laugh and also smile is an important process.

    • @KrisAkaVenno
      @KrisAkaVenno 4 года назад

      @@Anna-qz6xw but that's actually hilarious comment

  • @jspinks2388
    @jspinks2388 9 лет назад +8

    If it is Bi-Polar I have, I don't know haha, The Creativity definitely could be there/have some interaction.

    • @williegates627
      @williegates627 3 года назад

      Google "bipolar criterion dsm". There's a list of 6-8 things and if you have something like 80% of them, you are bipolar...or whatever the list describes.

  • @nattypotter15
    @nattypotter15 Год назад

    I would not mind joining this or these talks as some are intesting

  • @staceydelbucchia2576
    @staceydelbucchia2576 3 года назад +4

    Thank you...very interesting..I have bipolar I y love to be creative❤🕊

  • @annetteandersen5762
    @annetteandersen5762 5 лет назад +3

    I had dificulty getting the point in this video.. am in depression state so maybe that is why...

    • @TT-fn1xb
      @TT-fn1xb 5 лет назад +2

      It's not your depression, it's the speaker. It's just a dry talk. Not engaging.

  • @stefyguereschi
    @stefyguereschi 10 дней назад

    THANK FOR CLEAR EXPLANATION '
    Right 'A BIPOLAR mind .
    You are either TOO happy.
    'Too Sad or you JUST DON'T care.
    Finding the feelings in the Middle do NOT come naturally.
    You ARE EVERY day to find them'
    Well'many PEOPLE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER are more creative than the rest population in SUCH THINGS As art'writing'and more.
    Famous creatives WITH BIPOLAR disorder '
    For example/Virginia Woolf'Edgar Allan Poe'
    ALDA Merini ..
    Painters /Van Ghog/
    🍂🍂

  • @adrianjabs5752
    @adrianjabs5752 3 года назад +4

    Fascinating I've often wondered ( personally bipolar 1 ) r BP traits an evolutionary advantage does creativity intelligence and self awareness seperate man from beast & does the great leap of hypomania agitation - psychosis become a Darwinian step can removing & treatment of a clinical condition remove a beneficial addition to mankind !???!!!

  • @christinebadostain6887
    @christinebadostain6887 6 лет назад +6

    It is not a mood disorder! It is extreme emotional range!

    • @Jo-lp1px
      @Jo-lp1px 5 лет назад +5

      Yes and it becomes diagnosable as a disorder when it starts destroying your life, especially during mania when one cannot control his/her thoughts or actions. It's not just having intense and varied emotions. I've been stable on lithium for 8 years straight and I have my life back. Dealing with constant fatigue (main side effect) is a daily battle but more than worth it.

  • @sanhara2747
    @sanhara2747 2 года назад

    Does medication stop the creative juices?

  • @Mangopiopi
    @Mangopiopi 3 года назад +3

    He is talkin in English but i feel like i don't understand every other sentence

  • @discardeddede
    @discardeddede 7 лет назад +23

    If what he says is too difficult for you to understand, get some education and stop whining. Not everything has to be simplified. There are plenty of videos online that are easy to understand. If you have a problem with this one, move on. People who understand what he is saying may be happy to hear someone talk in a sophisticated way.

  • @SK8NIK1
    @SK8NIK1 7 лет назад +2

    I am starting to worry about the validity of TED talks over time. Should there be , like, an update flag for those that focus on older research methodologies which contribute more to our knowledge of the researcher than the actual subject matter? No disrespect Terence.

    • @toddboothbee1361
      @toddboothbee1361 6 лет назад +2

      you're being ageist.

    • @lissaajz
      @lissaajz 6 лет назад

      Why would anyone want older research ways if we have new and improve? Are we trying to became dumber?
      It’s kind of hard to understand but I’m the one who needs to figure the information out, that’s ok by me. Don’t need to get everything given to me.

  • @Rigg15
    @Rigg15 7 лет назад +5

    You know, the one's that cut their ear off ha ha they are so silly.

  • @studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615
    @studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615 3 года назад +4

    TAKE MOOD STABILISERS= SAY BYE BYE TO ALL YOUR CREATIVITY!!!!!!!

  • @jos3557
    @jos3557 3 года назад

    I have an extreme case of ADD

  • @rawafalsharif4219
    @rawafalsharif4219 4 года назад +2

    A professional joking about Vincent van Gogh's manic episodes. Not cute.

  • @arabellacox
    @arabellacox 5 лет назад +2

    I've tried watching but I haven't a clue what he's on about. Communication is obviously not his forte!!

    • @creamyg816
      @creamyg816 5 лет назад +1

      no I think you just didn't listen and didn't understand. It's scientifc words lol. Communication is is forte you wrong on that what you should say is his public speaking is not his forte cause thats probably why you don't understand it but his research and studies are on point.

  • @tryhappiness2725
    @tryhappiness2725 3 года назад

    I have a book on Wattpad with 1 mil views.

  • @studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615
    @studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615 3 года назад +2

    TOO ACADEMIC FOR ME. TOO MANY SCIENTIFIC WORDS ONLY PROFESSORS WOULD UNDERSTAND.

  • @toddboothbee1361
    @toddboothbee1361 7 лет назад +1

    Interesting topic, but he keeps swallowing his words at the end of some of his sentences. Lose a lot this way.

  • @lisadavinci6255
    @lisadavinci6255 4 года назад +2

    I'm bipolar bear 🤣

  • @ghoulie1313666
    @ghoulie1313666 4 года назад +6

    this is soooooooooooooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

  • @DenverDeathrock
    @DenverDeathrock 7 лет назад +7

    If mentally ill people are creative, why not test schizophrenics who would likely have thoughts beyond all the others. Also mixing depression with bipolar on the graphs makes it look like 100 percent of poets are bipolar, when actually less than ten percent are and the rest just have ordinary depression. Separate these out if the talk is only about bipolar people. Creativity is not well defined although you tried to do it. I know lots of creative people and artists and almost none ever get any recognition, so are they creative or just playing around with paint. A picture in MOMA may not be creative at all. It's just that the board of directors may like it and it may be a trendy artist. Warhol was trendy although not very creative and not the first pop artist. This board, deciding on art like Warhol, may be business people; not even other artist???

    • @lifesoboring1
      @lifesoboring1 6 лет назад +1

      I think the lecturer agrees with you about the "validation" part. He is acknowledging that unrecognized people might be as creative or more than artists with pictures hanging in museums

    • @Teadekun
      @Teadekun Год назад

      The creativity of schizophrenics was tested multiple times. I saw their paintings, portraits . I believe you can easily find it on the internet

  • @stt9379
    @stt9379 8 лет назад

    what the hell it was just a show man?

  • @christinebadostain6887
    @christinebadostain6887 6 лет назад +1

    The reason one has a "mood disorder" is because one is of a temperamental type.

  • @vonlossberg
    @vonlossberg 7 лет назад +1

    You really need to speak to people in lay terms. This is too technical. I am a bipolar fantasy artist and could tell you many things about it. You can see my art on my page here in some of the you tubes. I will have to listen to this again.

    • @vinodvirkud7555
      @vinodvirkud7555 7 лет назад

      Christine Von Lossberg ya l would like to see your art

    • @lifesoboring1
      @lifesoboring1 6 лет назад

      Christine Von Lossberg Where can I see your art?

  • @RobertJamesChinneryH
    @RobertJamesChinneryH 7 лет назад +3

    Looks like most of the sheeple here just don't get it and don't have the education dash intelligence to understand

    • @tonygarcia2838
      @tonygarcia2838 4 года назад

      Robert James Chinnery that was a run on sentence. There’s a standard of your intelligence. The speaker is one of many, take from it what you can, bi polar between each of us is different .

  • @88niteowl88
    @88niteowl88 2 года назад +1

    To everyone reading this, Jesus loves you.

  • @hopefulmelancholy7514
    @hopefulmelancholy7514 7 лет назад +9

    Use common street language.Get off your high PHD horse.Stop separating people into "mental" & normal.Aside from that I couldn't feel he cared about the subject.White coat syndrome for real.

    • @francisgallant1479
      @francisgallant1479 7 лет назад +3

      Sont language est pas si difficile a comprendre que sa je ne suis meme pas encore au college et je comprend et en passant c'est hyper interressant comme presentation si sa ne t'interresse pas ne regarde pas

    • @JasonSmith-pb5mv
      @JasonSmith-pb5mv 6 лет назад +2

      Get off your low horse and get a vocabulary. This talk is only for those who understand it. Spend more time with a dictionary and you won't have to whine in the comments.

  • @aurelijuskat9292
    @aurelijuskat9292 7 лет назад +7

    he's not bipolar and he shouldn't talk about it, lame

  • @nickkingston8929
    @nickkingston8929 7 лет назад

    Has dr.terence ketter ever had bipolar, no , like all profs he is guessing

  • @cp6983
    @cp6983 7 лет назад +6

    Ok ? Ok ? Ok Ok ? Ok Ok too much of the ok ok ok ok 👌🏻 Ok ? Also , not everyone speaks medical jargon and clinical vocabulary. Lighten up , get to the point without all of your words that most laymen don't and won't understand simply because they didn't study higher continued education in health or psych. Mellow out sir. Credit for getting up there and trying. There is a woman in the audience that sounds like a laughing hyena or an African dingo at dusk. She needs the downers and some food and possibly a mate for the night.

    • @francisgallant1479
      @francisgallant1479 7 лет назад +5

      It doesn't take higher education to understand what he is talking about

    • @francisgallant1479
      @francisgallant1479 7 лет назад +6

      You should try to use your manic episode in a productive way btw instead of commenting things like that