Salvador Gutierrez P7 Mar.14 - Mar. 18

This week in AP Psychology: we learned about psychological disorders.  What I found fascinating was that poets, authors, artists, and musicians have a high rate of having a psychology disorder.  I already have noticed that many legendary poets, authors, artists, and musicians had psychological disorders.  For example: Joey Ramone, Johnny Cash, Ernest Hemingway, Vincent Van Gogh, Ian Curtis, Jackson Pollock, and Michael Jackson.  Some already had the disorder and found a way to express themselves and what they are going through while others, in a way, gave themselves a disorder.  For example, a struggling artist takes some marijuana and ends up painting something amazing.  So he decides to smoke more and more marijuana and take other drugs to come up with another good painting.  Eventually destroying himself because of all the marijuana and any other drugs consumed.  I am still not sure why material from people with some sort of disorder tends to be good.  Is it because we don’t know what they are going through?  That they live in another world, and so the things they write/sing/draw about is something new to us.  It is human nature to like new things.  Or is it because of their disorder, they are able to see the world differently, in a certain manner that fascinates us.  I am not saying you need to have a psychological disorder to be a good poet, author, musician, or artist.  But it just so happens that some of the legendary poets, authors, musicians, and artists happened to have some sort of psychological disorder.  Then again, what does it mean to have a disorder?  What does it mean to be sane?