The one good thing about being manic depressive is that when I'm insanely happy I do lots of living and fun stuff and when I'm suicidal depressed I can write about it. So essentially I would be an even worse writer than I am already if I was psychotic. Well, that's a pleasant thought. They do say that most artistic genius' were insane because of one thing or another. Hum...let's make a list:
1) Virginia Woolf 9) Faulkner 17) Jackson Pollock 25) T.S. Elliot
2) Silvia Plath 10) Keasts 18) William Blake 26) George Bernard Shaw
3) Picasso 11) Tony Kushner 19) Allen Ginsberg
4) Van Gogh 12) Poe 20) Theodore Roethke
5) Beethoven 13) Lord Byron 21) John Berryman
6) Checkov 14) Robert Schumann 22) Robin Williams
7) Fitzgerald 15) George Gordon 23) Patty Duke
8) Kafka 16) Joseph Conrad 24) Georgia O'Keefe

Need I go on?
Hopefully one day I too can be on this list, not because I'm proud that I have a mental illness, but because I hope to be a successful writer and most of the people on this list are quite famous and if you haven't heard of at least half of them you must have lived in a box your whole life. Not to insult people you actually live in boxes because they can't afford a home, I mean metaphorically lived in a box. You must live in an isolated universe.