Breaking the Mad Genius Myth
It may be romantic to tie outsize creativity to mental illness and mythologize the suicides of artists like Kurt Cobain and Robin Williams. But is it causing more harm than we realize?
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‘Dead Poets Society’ Saved My Life
But the writer was a 14-year-old depressed girl. The late Robin Williams—the film’s star—suffered a strain of the illness that was as insidious as a cancer. And just as heartbreakingly deadly.