What is the difference between creativity and madness?

Quora says this about your question:- "This question needs editing to be improved. It may need to be reworded as a fully formed question, need spelling, grammar, or formatting improved (learn more about formatting on Quora), be ambiguous or difficult to understand, or be too reliant on question details, or overly verbose. read more

If I'm completely honest I don't believe there is a difference between creativity and madness, at least not on the idea level. Let me explain: On the level of pure ideas I believe there is only two primary paths of realization. read more

History suggests that the line between creativity and madness is a fine one, but a small group of people known as schizotypes are able to walk it with few problems and even benefit from it. A new study confirms that their enhanced creativity may come from using more of the right side of the brain than the rest of us. read more

While there is a definite relationship between 'madness' and creativity, it is obvious that we cannot say that the two are always linked. There are many people suffering from depressive forms of mental illness who feel either unable or unwilling to be creative and there are many creative people who have never had symptoms of mental illness. read more