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List Of People Believed To Have Been Affected By Bipolar DisorderMany famous people are believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder, based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. It is often suggested that genius and mental disorder are linked as discussed by Kay Redfield Jamison in Touched with Fire. The nature of the condition means it is nearly impossible to obtain a definitive list of bipolar persons, hence this is a list of those that are believed to be so. The fact that it contains many artistic geniuses can be interpreted in two ways, either that bipolar disorder occurs frequently in artistic geniuses or that people frequently associate mental disorder with genius in error, not understanding the nature of the gift. Below is a list of people who have been cited by a source as probably having bipolar disorder. It must be noted that many of the older cases are supposed from their behaviour rather than an actual medical diagnosis. To avoid controversy, this lists only deceased persons and living persons who have been frank about their condition. List A Hans Christian Andersen TWF Adam Ant Has spoken openly on television about his condition. B Thomas Lovell Beddoes TWF Ludwig Van Beethoven NAMI See this article for a review of Beethoven's mental state. Scienfic analysis of Beethoven's hair has given rise to speculation that lead poisoning may have been a cause of his depression. Lord Byron TWF (Touched with fire profiles Lord Byron's illness in detail) Charles Pierre Baudelaire TWF C Winston Churchill NAMI Churchill often refered to "Black dog", his depression. He is also recorded to have undergone manic phases of intense productivity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge TWF His condition is more commonly directly attributed to drug use "Around 1796, Coleridge started using opium as a pain reliever" D Ray Davies is openly manic-depressive; also see his autobiography, X-Ray Charles Dickens TWF Gaetano Donizetti NAMI Patty Duke NAMI, also wrote about her own illness in Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness E Ralph Waldo Emerson TWF F Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald TWF William Faulkner TWF G Vincent Van Gogh TWF NAMI H Ernest Hemingway TWF Hermann Hesse TWF J Kay Redfield Jamison, who profiled her own bipolar disorder in her 1995 memoir An Unquiet Mind and argued for a connection between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity in her 1993 book, Touched with Fire. K John Keats NAMI M Spike Milligan "I had to write a new show every week for six months. If Hitler had done that to someone it would be called torture. I was in such a state of hypertension that I was unapproachable by human beings, and I became a manic depressive." (see Guardian obituary N Isaac Newton NAMI Florence Nightingale BPW "Florence heard voices and experienced a number of severe depressive episodes in her teens and early 20s - symptoms consistent with the onset of bipolar disorder," Dr. Kathy Wisner, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. See this article. O P Jimmy Piersall NAMI R S Robert Alexander Schumann TWF Robert Louis Stevenson TWF Ben Stiller "I have not been an easygoing guy. I think it's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family" Quotation from Stiller himself, sourced from About.com T Sara Teasdale TWF Mark Twain TWF Michael Slater Was very open on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton regarding his experiences with Bipolar II. W Virginia Woolf TWF see also Virginia Woolf's psychiatric history Tennessee Williams TWF Similar lists
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