Which Famous People Live (d) With Mental Illness?

Mar 30, 2019 | LAMSA, Mental health

By LAMSA

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March 30 is World Bipolar Day

Bipolar disorders are celebrated worldwide on March 30, the birthday date of Vincent Van Gogh, who was posthumously diagnosed as possibly having bipolar disorder.

(World Bipolar Day is an initiative of International Bipolar Foundation (IBPF) in collaboration with the Asian Network of Bipolar Disorder (ANBD) and the International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD).)

“The presence of a mental illness does not mean that  a person cannot have a successful life and make a positive contributi0n to the society; people from all walks of life and throughout history have been successful while living with a mental illness.”

A non-exhaustive list of people living with mental illness, however who have been, in different fields, successful and who have and still impacted the world:

Abraham Lincoln; Winston Churchill; Carrie Fisher; Dorothy Hamill; Clara Hughes; Demi Lovato; Jared Padalecki; Megan Fox; Pete Wentz; David Beckham; Brittany Snow; Josh Ramsay; Leo Tolstoy; Virginia Woolf; Ernest Hemmingway; Margot Kidder; Margaret Trudeau; Ludwig van Beethoven; Patty Duke; Karen Carpenter; Boris Yeltsin; Britney Spears; Charles Darwin; John Nash; Janet Jackson; Buzz Aldrin; Terry Bradshaw; Marlon Brando; Jim Carrey; Robin Williams; Sheryl Crow; Kurt Cobain; Calvin Coolidge; Princess Diana; Tipper Gore; John Daly; Emma Stone; Leonardo Dicaprio; Justin Bieber; John Hamm; Michelangelo; Issac Newton; Vincent Van Gough; Pablo Picasso; Martin Luther King Jr.; Patrick Kennedy; Betty Ford; Catherine Zeta-Jones; Brooke Shields; Jean-Claude Van Damme; Michael Phelps.

Please comment by mentioning the area of contribution or by adding other names from your own research.