| There have been many famous people with bipolar | | | | well-known in her field wrote two books, including a |
| disorder, or thought now to have had it based on | | | | memoir and a treatise on the connection between |
| their lifeworks and stories. There have been so | | | | the illness and creativity. Besides these, there have |
| many, in fact, that it is considered by some to be a | | | | been many other books written by famous people |
| mark of genius. That may or may not be true, but it | | | | with bipolar disorder about their experiences. |
| is easy to see why the connection in made after a | | | | Some famous people with bipolar disorder have been |
| look at the many famous people with bipolar disorder. | | | | posthumously diagnosed to have had it. Many are |
| Writers have been, and continue to be, some of the | | | | current stars and may have actually received the |
| great famous people with bipolar disorder. Mark | | | | diagnosis from their doctors. Some of these are |
| Twain was one such writer. He, like many such | | | | actresses Linda Hamilton, Margot Kidder, Carrie Fisher, |
| writers, was highly functional in his writing. However, | | | | and Patty Duke. Others are musicians such as Kurt |
| he could be depressed-seeming and pessimistic at | | | | Cobain, Ozzy Osbourne, Axel Rose, and Trent |
| times. He also had overblown business ideas which. | | | | Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. |
| Like many manics' ideas never were accomplished. | | | | In the past, famous people with bipolar disorder lived |
| Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote the modern classic | | | | very difficult lives. They may not have even known |
| Slaughterhouse-Five and many other books, and | | | | that they had any kind of disorder at all. Many |
| William Faulkner, who created an entire fictional place | | | | thought the way of mania and depression was just |
| called Yoknapatawha County as a setting for his | | | | the way of the world. |
| novels, were two other famous people with bipolar | | | | Now, famous people with bipolar disorder are under |
| disorder | | | | an extraordinary amount of pressure to work |
| Some of the most well-known names in modern | | | | through their cycles of mania and depression. The |
| history have been thought to have had this disorder. | | | | case of Kurt Cobain proved that bipolar disorder |
| These famous people with bipolar disorder include | | | | untreated is a disaster. On the other hand, many feel |
| names such as: Winston Churchill, Abbie Hoffman, | | | | that the medications stunt their creativity. Therapy is |
| Edgar Allen Poe, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Isaac | | | | seen by some as a vent by which the powerful |
| Newton. The world would not have been the same | | | | force of their expression is lost. |
| without these and the many other famous people | | | | This is a controversial topic, and many doctors feel |
| with bipolar disorder. | | | | that great strides have been made in medications |
| Some famous people with bipolar disorder have | | | | that are not as debilitating to the creative person. |
| written about the disorder. Most notably, Patty Duke | | | | Therapy, too, has changed in many quarters. One |
| wrote a lengthy book on the subject of her own | | | | thing is certain. The prognosis is better these days |
| illness. There have been other famous people with | | | | than it ever has been for famous people with bipolar |
| bipolar disorder who have written books about the | | | | disorder. |
| subject. Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychologist | | | | |