From The Edge is a podcast hosted by Steve C., featuring discussion, music, and comedy... sometimes funny, sometimes not so much, but always guaranteed...to be a podcast. He showcases the Blue Light Special which is live recordings from his patrolling the mean streets, and in-between calls he focuses his thoughts into an edgy and informative diatribe. FTE is also a proud member of the Bear Crawling Nation. 
Insanity breeds creativity?
I take medication to control depression and I recently went for a while with out my “happy pills” and I seemed to experience a huge surge in creativity that also was accompanied by some unpleasant mood swings and all the other fun stuff that one experiences when one is chemically imbalanced. I have often wondered about the connection, if indeed there is one, between mental illness and creativity. You often read stories about famous artists and geniuses and their struggles to function “normally”, and this seems to beg several questions. For instance, does insanity breed creativity, or does creativity drive one to insanity? Are our inner demons our real muses? When released from the chemical restraints of modern pharmacology, are our minds somehow more free to think outside the box? Would Edgar Allen Poe have been as talented had he not been mentally ill and addicted to alcohol and morphine? Or is our creativity at times strong enough to push us over the edge? Perhaps this entire line of thought is merely like a snake eating it’s own tail, a question of the chicken and the egg. My head hurts, I have to go take my medicine now.
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