Source: NPR Fresh air

Author Kay Redfield Jamison’s new book describes how Lowell’s manic-depressive illness influenced his life and work. “His manias tended to lead him into writing a fresh kind of poetry,” she says. Lloyd Schwartz reviews a reissue of ‘Chimes At Midnight’ starring Orson Welles, and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a new album from saxophonist Miguel Zenón.

Listen to the fifty minute audio interview in NPR

The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment

This is not a medical advice. Psychosis or what in the common parlance is called madness, is caused by two broad categories of psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia and bipolar depression. I have made this post to share some materials to highlight that bipolar depression is much more treatable and preferable than schizophrenia. It even has some silver lining of providing creativity.