Bi-polar disorder isn’t something that a lot of us consider an asset – but if you look at it from another angle, it’s a mark of something more.

Those of us with mental health problems can count ourselves in esteemed company:

Hugh Laurie
Stephen Fry
Axyl Rose (front man of Guns and Roses)

Virginia Woolfe
Sting (front man of the band Police, and pop star as a solo artist)
Sylvia Plath

As you can see, each person on this tiny list is considered excentric, or has at one point gone off the rails in one way or another – some succumbed to the urges that the illness inspired, and others have fought back.  Some are winning, in a public way, and others are working on it as they go.

Mostly though I wanted to highlight that it’s not something that we’re facing alone – and that it affects us no matter where we are in our lives – and where we are in our carreers.