Fire=spiritual balance
We are all, also, to a more or lesser degree, living with psychic abilities.
(Jung discovered the mental institutions were filled with patients with psychic insights.)
Many are very talented artists too... "gifted" ones who perhaps never developed their potentials because of all the abuse artists receive, just for wanting to be one.  Not to mention, lack of support from parents &/or teachers who are perhaps blocked creatively themselves, or worse yet, from a media system filled with creatively blocked critics,
who's thoughtless words rang louder than their calling to be creative.
(Behind the music... can we talk?)
The reasons for where we end up... in correctional institutions,  mental wards...
or dead end jobs for that matter, comes from what we choose to do about our pain.
When we experience pain, some blame others, some blame ourselves,
and some become apathetic to everything & everyone...
and then there are those who grow from adversity & are made stronger by it...
they know the simple secret in life...
making the best out of what ever happens.
Our pain & discomfort is the path to our enlightenment,
to numb the pain or blame yourself or others,
is to shut off the light & stumble in the dark.
If we acknowledge the pain & process what it's message is, we adjust & grow.
If we let our fears block the messages the pain brings, we miss the true healing of understanding.
We all need support through these times of misunderstandings & fear
as well as for our creativity & intuitive insights.
In tribal times we would go visit the medicine man (&/or woman) of the tribe.
They might prescribe a vision quest or a ritual to go deep into dreamtime where the fear was born.
The difference between those times & now,
is that this medicine man (or woman) had also seen us though all of our life stages...
and the people of the tribe had know us all of our life, it was one big family.
Everyone was giving us support to go through  the pain to the other side,
it was looked at as a turning point, a rite of passage into elderhood,
not a problem that had to be fixed because we
(unlike others who may never question their lives deeply & and not risk stepping further)
have a "sick" brain.
A break down can be a wonderful spiritual awakening with the right support.
It's a calling from our soul to wake up and change our life.
Seen as a shameful thing...
because we are "sick" cheapens the gift of what it is...
into a problem to be fixed.
Looked at this way, we may never get to the bottom of it,
instead we are taught to just deal with it through
"coping mechanisms" that may just keep it coming back up.
If it keeps being ignored, the opportunity for the vision of who we could become
on the other side of this awakening, keeps being lost.
For instance, Dr.'s offering anti-depressant drugs may seem to help,
and although for some it may seem needed for a time...
they often cut us off from our insights and inspirations,
& lead us to believe the answers are outside us, so the myth continues for an outward need.
Using a manic high is at the very core of inventions & the creative process,
and has been used for that by some of the greatest minds throughout history.
Living without it, isn't living at all...
if we want to be: creative in a healthy way.
Using our passions to lead us on our journey... as life evolves them into compassion
for life, love, & truly living with a deep sense of purpose.
The key, is how to do it in a way that's healthy & constructive to ourselves & those around us.