Debilitating symptoms of Tourette Syndrome may also fuel creative energy

...crows Times Online. It be cool, but bemusing 'tis as time(s) marches (merches?) on there is less and less of the known world not colonised by mental illness. Dysfunction, disorder, whatever.

This really makes me laugh: "Recent speculation has focused on Mozart as a possible Tourette sufferer, based mainly on scatalogical references in letters and music. However, some experts suggest it may have been more the exuberance of youth than a clinical condition." Yeah, and the funny thing is(n't) that at the moment overly exuberant youth are often being diagnosed and medicated for being overly exuberant.