Mental health medicines & creativity

Has anyone taken prescription medicine for a mental illness and found that it kind of sucks the creativity right from your brain?

 

Not at all. My creativity has somewhat increased since I have been stable, on medication. It helps me focus and finish what I start when I begin a creative project.

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I thought that most, but not all did that. Worse was the affect on my personality. It was dulled a lot. Every pill affects every aspect.

 

no, I feel just as creative, but I have found that I'm not as crazy when I am on medication d:

 

I feel dulled a bit, but like hippy chick666 says, medication helps me focus and finish projects. The worst part about it I think is the stigma, and personality flattening.

 

Yes, in the past that was the first thing that I noticed about my meds. So, I talked to my doctor, and took something different. That was not the only problem I had with them of course, it was just the one I noticed first. I'm on something now that doesn't inhibit my creativity at all. I'm not exactly as creative as I used to be but I know that is because I don't allow myself to be, it isn't the medication preventing me from being creative. Plus, when my life was a wreck and out of control, there was so much more to write about and so it was easy to be creative. Now things are going pretty well, so I don't exactly have a whole lot to write crazy poetry over.

 

For me it has worked on two different spectrums. There are medications that have put my mania on hyperdrive so more erratic creativity. Those were times when my meds were clearly off.

Other times the meds I've been on slowly slowed my creativity down to a stop. As in the last time I was on meds... I can look in my journal and see a huge difference between when I was on meds and when I was not.