Enervive: Encouraging the creativity within all mental disorders
 

Unlike most sites about mental disorders, we hope to encourage and emphasize the brightest, most overlooked side of having a mental disorder: the capacity for unusual creativity.

By seeing mental disorders in a positive light, rather than as terrible "illnesses", society can improve its attitudes toward and treatment for mental health, and the stigma of mental illness can be eliminated.

Introduction
About our site
A story
Reversing the stigma
Editor's note

The creative sides of some major mental disorders
ADD/ADHD
Anxiety disorders
Autism
Depression
Manic Depression (Bipolar)
Personality disorders (coming soon)
Schizophrenia

Issues relating to your diagnosis
Diagnosis keeps changing
Diagnosis seems incorrect
Mixed feelings

Taking care of yourself
Seeking therapy or medical treatment
Seeking alternatives
Religion
Beyond professional or alternative treatment
Hospitalization
Making changes

Synesthesia
What is it? (coming soon)
Could you have it?
Types/Classifications (coming soon)
Effects on memory
Effects on creativity (coming soon)

Recovery from "down" periods
Advanced Coping (coming soon)
The 12-step approach? (coming soon)

Spotlight:

Create a virtual card for a friend, relative, or even an online acquaintance.

Spotlight:

Enervive's Creative Mind Challenge

Be inspired by others
Our 'Unusual Creativity' blog

Creative traits frequently found in mental disorders
Spontaneity
Intuition
Curiosity
Obsession
Connection/Empathy
Wit and humor
Moodiness, drama, & emotion

Flow Psychology
Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" theory
Flow & mental disorders
Finding the right kind of flow
Further reading

Activities to help you find the creativity behind the disorder
Brainstorming
Recording events & dreams from memory
Observing
Meditating
Physical exercise

Misc.
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