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Published Mar 26, 2007
mani3433
52 Posts
Hi,
I have to do Psych paper on Famous person with mental illness. There must be book written about or by this person.
Please help me out to choose a famous person which has a lot of information available online.
thanx
GingerSue
1,842 Posts
Margaret Trudeau (was the wife of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, a Prime Minister of Canada) and recently she let the public know that she suffers bipolar disorder http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=afe7ba0a-ed2d-4dad-bd8b-ccb41e5dd020
EricJRN, MSN, RN
1 Article; 6,683 Posts
Wikipedia.com might be a great place to begin searching for this person. There are many celebrities affected by psychiatric issues, so I'm sure you'll be able to find one that interests you.
firstyearstudent
853 Posts
Vincent Van Gogh
William Styron
Syd Barrett
Brian Wilson
John Nash
Jack Kerouac
Just put go to a search engine and type in "famous" and a disease such as "bipolar" or "schizophrenia"
http://www.mentaljokes.com/famous_manic.html
ttp://www.schizophrenia.com/famous.htm
Achoo!, LPN
1,749 Posts
Kurt Cobain or Ozzy Osbourne
Rosie O Donnell
Charles Manson?
Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN
12,126 Posts
Vivian Leigh ("Scarlett" from "Gone With The Wind"), bipolar disorder
Cherish
876 Posts
Amy Tan
Anne Rice
Brooke Shields
Tennesee Williams
Abraham Lincoln
Trent Reznor
Harrison Ford
Jim Carrey
Princess Diana
Rodney Dangerfield
Marie Osmond
Winston Churchill
All suffered from depression.
http://depression.about.com/od/famous/Famous_People_With_Depression.htm
zooz
196 Posts
Here's an article from Psychology Today that might help you out: Celebrity Meltdown
Megsd, BSN, RN
723 Posts
I had to write a paper like that and did mine on Virginia Woolf.
luvmypatients
96 Posts
Howard Hughes
Check out the movie "The Aviator"
noggin_wise
28 Posts
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore, Al Gore, most of hollywood the list is endless. Just go to moveon.org or the democrat underground and you will find lots of famous people there will mental illness.
psalm, RN
1,263 Posts
Sylvia Plath
Abe Lincoln's wife, Mary