Mental Disorder = Creative?

I have come into belief that in order to enjoy hentai you have to have a more creative mind. Maybe a more active mind as well, this is an actual post that I want to look over and see if a couple different theories are correct as well.
Allot of people seem to have a multitude of disorders, so forgive me if I miss yours. I want to see if not only creative people are more prone to look/enjoy hentai but if people with a mental status of the mind are drawn to it as well. I do not consider all mental issues disorders, but more of a mental status. I want to see how many people are associated with these mental statuses enjoy hentai, and if they are more open to being creative. I am by no means saying you have any mental problem by enjoying henta, just possibly a more open or creative mind.
Sorry, I'm trying to make sense...

Please add your Mental Status in a post below if you have something to say or it is not found.
Try to only poll if you are diagnoised with said mental status, although some have no need for an actual diagnosis to know you have it such as Schizophrenia an Anxiety disorder

I kinda added hentai to make it relevant, and that creative minds do tend to shift toward hentai in a positive way.

Final note: If you think you have everyone of these, you do have Hypochondria Disorder

I wonder what you mean with 'creative mind' in this concept? The way I understand that word, it sounds a bit farfetched to think it would correlate with either hentai watching or mental disorders. Care to share the basis of why do you think this way? Personal experience, some sort of logic, something else?

And I don't have any of those.

I have OCD.

That is all.

Your poll is somewhat... how to put it... dumb.
You're fishing for your own views, hearing what you want to hear.

I'm sure that if you added a "no mental disorders" option to it, it would far outvote any of the opposing options.

Hey, having a mental disorder doesn't make you smart, being insane does. Get the facts straight :)

The only mental illness that I have is depression.

Well no offense to any one, if its an unacceptable post then I'll remove it.

I have schizoaffective disorder. By my understanding of the condition, it is a gift and a curse (a double edged sword if you will). On one hand, having racing thoughts influences my active imagination (which is perfect for my passion of writing fictional stories). On the other hand, there are times where I can't control my racing thoughts and they end up sinking me into a manic depressive state. When that happens, nothing of true value gets accomplished and my good judgement gets impaired. So far, I've had two psychotic episodes, so I have no choice but to take medication to simmer my symptoms down. While medicine does a good job of keeping my thoughts under control, it also blocks off my motivational drive to be creative. Now that I'm medicated, I'm bored as fuck (but at least I can concentrate better due to the absence of violent mood swings).

My bi polar issues and my ocd keeps me on track with my work and perfection... to the level of wanting to burn all my work for being sooooo fucking shitty. I drink the toner to sooth the prick inside my head.

Where is your control in the poll? You need a "no mental disorders" option to get even slightly accurate results.

OT: I have ADD, apparently.

I just finished Chuck Pahlnuik's "Diary," talking about the mental disorder, or great trauma, being the reproducible variable in great creative pursuit.
e.g. Van Gogh, with lead poisoning. Shakespeare, with post traumatic stress. Edgar Allen Poe, who I believe was manic depressive.

It is an interesting commentary, but I believe that the current state of the psychiatric community is over-diagnosing people. This floods the sample with "disorder"-ed people, rather than making a true correlation.

I'd like to explore your line between creativity and hentai, though. I could infer that you're referring to the uncanny valley, when talking about arousal originating from non-human forms.
Imagination could take a part, but I, personally, find the idealism to be the deciding factor.

"I watch hentai when I get sick of stick-figure pornstars"

I have paranoia about various things and I am currently getting help with my paranoia of my social anxiety.

I think I have or look like I have aspergers just because of the way I am around others and the way I think, I sort of have OCD but not on any thing specific I just get the itch to do some thing some times normally correct placement of some thing, I sort of have a personality disorder mostly because of my lack of human contact and I feel like a ghost in a shell. I have been told by other people they think I have depression.

I'm not sure how it helps me be creative currently I feel unable to be creative because I try too hard to be a perfectionist that I end up not bothering to do any thing. Maybe with out my "personality disorder" or what ever I have and my depression I would be creative.

First of all, Mental disorder, first of all, i need to say this.. 99.9% of the mental health feild has little to no solid medical backing. Second, all diagnosis made by these doctor, well are guesses at best.... ADD and ADHD are great examples, IF you can get your hands on copy of the Dsm Go look them up, think about it they way the dsm explains add and adhd is well the symptoms they list are perfectly normal behaviors of a child.(but according to that every child has add/adhd)
my personal experance is another example. at 7 they claimed i had a depression disorder, almost 20 years later..find out (though blood tests) my depression(or so they claim im depressed) it stems from a hormonal imbalance. according my doctor, I have devloped a pyscyhopathic thought process as a survival mechanism in copeing with the depression. Long story short, unlike most people, my emotions do not influence my judgment, even in cases of extreme duress... my doctor refers to me as a "Rational psychopath" in words its contradictory. But a quick explantion, basically my thought process has become so rational, that at times people would say im being irrational when in reality, things like morality are preventing them from understanding it from my perspective. As an example, from my personal book.
"I Support soilent green, Because it adresses overpopulation and world hunger at the same time"



Its not about mental disorders so much as its, certain barriers in these peoples minds arent there. such as morality so on and so forth, so yes it can inspire creativity. is it really worth all the suffering (at least in my life, not due to depression, due to all the things i saw and experanced in the numerous instutions i was in as a child)

Having a developmental disorder, learning disability/differing abilities does not make you more creative.

It just sometimes gives people with these issues something to build on and use in creative outlets like art, sciences, etc.

I personally have severe ADHD (no, I'm not an annoying 7 year old, I hyperfocus, or obsess over concepts and topics until I know everything about them) and OCD, both diagnosed by professionals ;D But I don't think the actual disorders have much to do with hentai- I think that intelligence does. Hentai-->intelligent tendencies-->mental disorder tendencies (intellectual superiority has been linked to multiple psychological and social disorders)Good observation, though not 100% reliable.

I believe that the key to being a creative person is thinking outside the box. If you just think along the same lines as everyone else than your going to come up with something unoriginal and not creative. You have to bring your own thought process to follow a line that the majority does not follow. I am person that has Aspergers, I also think I am pretty creative. Do I think I am creative because of Aspergers? No. Do I think it played a part in shifting my personality to make it easier to think outside the box and therefore be more creative? Yes. You don't have to have a mental disorder to be creative. However most people are raised with the same view of the world,I think those that have mental disorders tend to view the world differently. However Not everyone with a mental disorder will be creative, To think that would be foolish. In short, even though you can be creative without having a mental disorder. Having one effects how you see things and that means your thought process is different which could indeed lead to being creative.

Well... I have Synesthesia. I see colors and shapes when I hear sounds and taste words. Not sure if it actually makes me enjoy hentai or if it causes me to have a creative mind... All I know is that the word penis tastes like Nerds (the candy). Erm... Weird, right?

That's pretty much me, except I find it quite easy to be creative.

When people ask if me if their is something wrong with me I like to say "Well my doctor says I have...(So and so.)" Because I honestly think their is nothing wrong me just all the people who find my personality annoying want to fit me into some category so they know how to "handle" me better. I don't think you need to be crazy or have a mental illness to be creative. Although I find most imaginative and creative people I know have a lot of other people telling them they're "Crazy." Maybe they're just good at showing off their brain.

Aspergers! I have it! It was hell. Well I still have it, but I'm alot better than what it was, now I'm just weird in other's eyes. I had it bad, like the whole couldnt walk without a pattern, couldnt listen to others, never looked them in the eyes, only ate certain foods, ignored my studies cause my teachers were 'doing it wrong', and my personal favorite: obsession.
Oh! And depression. I mean depression. I got depression so bad I broke. No kidding. I've never been quite the same.
I have noticed a tendency among my screwed up friends to like hentai though. At least amongst. 1..2..3..4..5..? of them? Thats about a 50/50 ratio there.
And of all my screwed up friends they're not so much creative.. more.. imaginative. Or at the very least interesting.