Famous People With Bipolar Disorder Past and Present

There have been many famous people with bipolarwell-known in her field wrote two books, including a
disorder, or thought now to have had it based onmemoir and a treatise on the connection between
their lifeworks and stories. There have been sothe illness and creativity. Besides these, there have
many, in fact, that it is considered by some to be abeen many other books written by famous people
mark of genius. That may or may not be true, but itwith bipolar disorder about their experiences.
is easy to see why the connection in made after aSome 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 thecurrent stars and may have actually received the
great famous people with bipolar disorder. Markdiagnosis from their doctors. Some of these are
Twain was one such writer. He, like many suchactresses 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 atCobain, 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 classicvery difficult lives. They may not have even known
Slaughterhouse-Five and many other books, andthat they had any kind of disorder at all. Many
William Faulkner, who created an entire fictional placethought the way of mania and depression was just
called Yoknapatawha County as a setting for histhe way of the world.
novels, were two other famous people with bipolarNow, famous people with bipolar disorder are under
disorderan extraordinary amount of pressure to work
Some of the most well-known names in modernthrough 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 includeuntreated 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, Isaacseen by some as a vent by which the powerful
Newton. The world would not have been the sameforce of their expression is lost.
without these and the many other famous peopleThis 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 havethat are not as debilitating to the creative person.
written about the disorder. Most notably, Patty DukeTherapy, too, has changed in many quarters. One
wrote a lengthy book on the subject of her ownthing is certain. The prognosis is better these days
illness. There have been other famous people withthan it ever has been for famous people with bipolar
bipolar disorder who have written books about thedisorder.
subject. Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychologist