Editing Mania (section)

== Society and culture ==

In ''Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania'' by Andy Behrman, he describes his experience of mania as "the most perfect prescription glasses with which to see the world... life appears in front of you like an oversized movie screen."<ref>{{cite book|last=Behrman, Andy|title=Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania|year=2002|pages=Preface: Flying High|publisher=Random House Trade Paperbacks|isbn=978-0-8129-6708-1}}</ref>  Behrman indicates early in his memoir that he sees himself not as a person with an uncontrollable disabling illness, but as a director of the movie that is his vivid and emotionally alive life. There is some evidence that people in the creative industries have bipolar disorder more often than those in other occupations.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Sheri L. |last2=Murray |first2=Greg |last3=Fredrickson |first3=Barbara |last4=Youngstrom |first4=Eric A. |last5=Hinshaw |first5=Stephen |last6=Bass |first6=Julie Malbrancq |last7=Deckersbach |first7=Thilo |last8=Schooler |first8=Jonathan |last9=Salloum |first9=Ihsan |date=February 2012 |title=Creativity and bipolar disorder: Touched by fire or burning with questions? |journal=Clinical Psychology Review |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |doi=10.1016/j.cpr.2011.10.001 |issn=0272-7358 |pmc=3409646 |pmid=22088366}}</ref>
[[Winston Churchill]] had periods of manic symptoms that may have been both an asset and a liability.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nolen-Hoeksema|first1=Susan|title=Abnormal psychology|date=2014|publisher=McGraw Hill Education|isbn=978-0-07-803538-8|page=184|edition=Sixth}}</ref>

English actor [[Stephen Fry]], who has [[bipolar disorder]],<ref name=independent>{{cite news |title=Stephen Fry: My battle with mental illness |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/stephen-fry-my-battle-with-mental-illness-416386.html |access-date=26 December 2018 |agency=The Independent |archive-date=24 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824141846/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/stephen-fry-my-battle-with-mental-illness-416386.html |url-status=live }}</ref> recounts manic behaviour during his adolescence: "When I was about 17 ... going around London on two stolen credit cards, it was a sort of fantastic reinvention of myself, an attempt to. I bought ridiculous suits with stiff collars and silk ties from the 1920s, and would go to the [[Savoy Hotel|Savoy]] and [[The Ritz Hotel, London|Ritz]] and drink cocktails."<ref>{{cite news |title=Stephen Fry: my battle with manic depression |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jul/21/mentalhealth.broadcasting |access-date=26 December 2018 |agency=The Guardian |archive-date=26 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226133805/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/jul/21/mentalhealth.broadcasting |url-status=live }}</ref> While he has experienced [[suicidal ideation|suicidal thoughts]], he says the manic side of his condition has had positive contributions on his life.<ref name=independent />