Why Professional Creatives Seem to Drink So Damn Much

Does trauma lead to greater creativity? Certainly, trauma by itself — which can mean anything from an accident to an assault to losing a loved one — isn’t necessarily going to result in creative glory. But a trauma can create that thorn that will prompt and drive you to be creative. Often this drive follows what’s known as a “disintegration,” a concept that has made the rounds in gifted education as part of a theory of positive disintegration by Polish psychologist Kazimierz Dabrowski. He said people, particularly brighter folks, will experience a trauma or major challenge, more often in childhood or adolescence, that causes them to “disintegrate” emotionally. It can be a nervous breakdown, a mental anxiety or a depression prompted by a disillusionment, or not being able to make sense of the world’s injustices.

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