" A lot of folks equate the manic energy of being bipolar with the creative spark that drives artists to brilliance. They point to so many great artists in history who lived with mental illness and say, “There it is, that energy, that’s what made them great!” Except for so many artists, mental illness didn’t make them great. It made them ill. And if they weren’t careful, it made them gone. "

― Alice Wong , Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century