Assume You Have a Friend Who Is a Talented Artist

Assume you have a friend who is a talented artist and has occasional short-term hypomania. What is the best thing, in terms of being a creative, productive artist, that your friend could do?

A) Seek immediate, in-depth treatment; hypomania severely limits artists.
B) Do nothing; sometimes, hypomania increases artistic creativity and productivity.
C) Try, at least occasionally, to feel mildly depressed; cyclothymic disorder is characteristic of most great artists.
D) Try, at least occasionally, to feel severely depressed; bipolar II disorder is characteristic of most great artists.