Can mood stabilising drugs negatively affect a person's creativity?

Patient input: Some of my bipolar patients are markedly creative when manic or hypomanic. A number have complained that they felt their creativity was stunted when their moods were stabilized. However, most were willing to give up the chaos in their lives in exchange for the sanity achieved with appropriate medications.

Stable and creative: You don't have to trade emotional stability for creativity. With careful choice of mood stabilizers and fine adjustment of the doses, you can be stable emotionally and creative. Even better, when emotionally stable, you can make better use of your creativity, being more organized and more efficient, staying with a project until it's done rather than jumping impulsively from one idea to another.