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Bipolar Journalists, Politicians and Business People

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:28:58 +0000

Politicians and Journalists
Alastair Campbell, press advisor
Dick Cavett, television journalist
Iris Chang, historian and journalist
Neil Cole, Australian Labor party
Michael Costa, Australian Labor party
Charmaine Dragun, former Australian journalist/newsreader
Abbie Hoffman, political activist
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy
Bill Lichtenstein, print and broadcast journalist
Jane Pauley
Gail Porter, British TV presenter

Business People
Philip Graham, publisher and businessman
John A. Mulheren, American financier, stock and option trader and philanthropist
Rene Rivkin, entrepreneur
Steven Thomas, entrepreneur
Mark Whitacre, business executive

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Famous Bipolar Visual Artists

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:32:48 +0000

Visual Artists
Barney Bubbles, graphic designer
Arthur McIntyre, Australian artist
Edvard Munch, painter
Jackson Pollock, painter
Vincent Van Gogh

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Bipolar Athletes

admin — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:35:09 +0000

This list of famous athletes with bipolar disorder is very interesting. It seems that more than one of them have gotten in trouble with their league for side effects related to their bipolar disorder.

Athletes
Frank Bruno, boxer
Paul Gascoigne, English footballer
Jonathan Hay, Australian rules footballer
Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
Chris Kanyon American professional wrestler
Graeme Obree, Scottish racing cyclist
Barret Robbins, NFL and Pro Bowler
Michael Slater, International Australian cricketer
Tim Smith, rugby league player
Delonte West, American basketball player

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Famous Performing Artists with Bipolar Disorder

admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:39:20 +0000

Performing Artists
Maurice Benard
Russell Brand
Andrea Breth
Jeremy Brett
Rosemary Clooney
Richard Dreyfuss
Patty Duke
Carrie Fisher
Stephen Fry
Mel Gibson
Linda Hamilton
Mariette Hartley
Margot Kidder
Vivien Leigh
Jenifer Lewis
Demi Lovato
Kristy McNichol
Burgess Meredith
Eric Millegan
Spike Milligan
Cheri Oteri
Nicola Pagett
Tony Slattery
Mackenzie Taylor
Gene Tierney
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Mark Vonnegut
David Walliams
Ruby Wax
Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Famous Authors with Bipolar Disorder

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:44:02 +0000

Quite of few of the names on this list were diagnosed posthumously. And from what I learned about the personalities of some of these writers in English class it is not surprising. A lot of these writers are the poster children for the tortured artist persona.

Authors
Andy Behrman, Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania
John Clare, poet
Patricia Cornwell, American crime writer
Alan Garner, According to the Guardian, “In The Voice that Thunders
Graham Greene, Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
Ivor Gurney, English composer and poet
Ernest Hemingway
Marya Hornbacher, Madness
Patrick Kroupa
Jack London
Kate Millett, The Loony-Bin Trip
Seaneen Molloy, Northern Irish blogger
Robert Munsch
Edgar Allan Poe
Sidney Sheldon
Virginia Woolf

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Famous Scholars with Bipolar Disorder

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:55:02 +0000

Continuing my theme of boosting morale by looking at successful examples of people with bipolar disorder. Here is a list of scholars. Although scientists are not reputed to have the best interpersonal skills. It is inspiring to see this list of great thinkers that are recognized for accomplishments in their fields.

Scholars
Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist and mathematician
Georg Cantor, mathematician
Robert S. Corrington, theologian
Iris Chang, historian
Kay Redfield Jamison, clinical psychologist and Professor
Florence Nightingale, nurse and health campaigner
Bill Oddie, naturalist
Emil Post, mathematician
Stuart Sutherland, British psychologist
Michael Thalbourne, Australian psychologist and parapsychologist

Do you know of others? I would love to hear about more.

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Famous Musicians with Bipolar Disorder

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:12:50 +0000

There is a long list of famous people that have been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. It is comforting and inspiring to know that others have found success while dealing with this disease. Here is a list of Musicians that suffer from “Manic Depression”:

Musicians
Adam Ant
Emilie Autumn
Max Bemis, Say Anything
Adrian Borland
Robert Calvert, Hawkwind
Rosemary Clooney, singer
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
Vincent Crane, Atomic Rooster
Ray Davies
Disco D, record producer and composer.
DMX (rapper)
Mike Doughty
Connie Francis
Justin Furstenfeld, Blue October
Matthew Good
Macy Grey
Terry Hall, The Specials
Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses
Jack Irons, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam
Daniel Johnston
Kerry Katona, Atomic Kitten
Otto Klemperer, conductor
Ben Moody, Evanescence
Sinéad O’Connor
Phil Ochs, musician.[94]
Ozzy Osbourne
Craig Owens, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
Jaco Pastorius, jazz musician
Odean Pope, American jazz musician
Charley Pride
Axl Rose, Guns N’ Roses
Robert Schumann, German composer
Nina Simone
Peter Steele, Type O Negative
Poly Styrene
Devin Townsend, Strapping Young Lad and The Devin Townsend Band
Nick Traina
Townes Van Zandt
Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver
Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy
Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys
Amy Winehouse

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My sister

hallie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:06:17 +0000

The thing I hate most about my mental illness is how it affects the relationships I have with those I love. I have a younger sister, she’s eight and I’m twenty two. I don’t go home much anymore, I have an apartment so I don’t need to, but I miss my family terribly and they only live twenty minutes away. I especially miss my sister, who I would do anything for. However, I’m too afraid to go home, fearing I’ll have an episode there, she is too young to understand what’s going on and she looks up to me. I would rather be a wonderful idea/memory to her than something that is confusing and frustrating currently. When she gets a little older I won’t be so distant because she’ll be able to understand better,but i don’t want to put her through something like this now, I love her too much for that, Iwould rather remove myself from her life at the moment and love her from afar than put her through this. I hope she’ll understand when she’s older and hope beyond hope she’s been spared having a mental illness herself. I don’t want her to go through what I’ve gone thorugh and am going through.

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A Little About Me and My Bipolar

hallie — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:40:30 +0000

I’ve been diagnosed as having bipolar/a mood disorder for nearly two years, but I’ve been living with it all my life. I was just recently diagnosed because I’ve been under a lot of stress lately thanks to trying to work my way through collage and get two unrelated degrees, but the disorder has always been there. It was misdiagnosed when I was younger as having OCD, anxiety and then depression, but none of the solutions for these disorders really helped me, sometimes they even made things worse. When I was young I threw tantrums nearly everyday. As I got older I learned that it was inappropriate and unjust for me to vent my mood swings on my loved one and so, as an adolescent/teen living in the country, I would run into the woods and scream, not coming home intil I was exhausted. Today, as a young adult living in the city, I have to relearn how to cope with my mood swings. I have, unfortunately, taken to turningmy anger in on myself and isolating myself during and after mood swings. This cuases me to feel very alone, self loathing and for the disorder to, in a way, rule me. I don’t come to this site with all the answers, I come looking for help and looking to help. The hope behind this site is that the interactions that will take place on this site will serve to not only help me learn to cope better, but will serve to help a multitude of people in the same boat cope better and learn to live thier lives again.