Famous person with mental illness

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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

Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Abe Lincoln himself.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

Patty Duke Astin has written a book about her struggle with bi-polar disease. I believe it is titled,"A Brilliant Madness".

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Patty Duke Astin has written a book about her struggle with bi-polar disease. I believe it is titled,"A Brilliant Madness".

this is the person i thought of, wasnt sure there was a book.....she also testified in congress.....

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Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.

patty Duke bipolar

Margot Kidder Bipolar

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Muhhamad Ali sorry for the terrible spelling :)

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Specializes in cardiac/critical care/ informatics.
Muhhamad Ali sorry for the terrible spelling :)

he has parkinsons that isn't a mental illness, or does he have something else?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Geri, Ortho, Telemetry, Psych.
Amy Tan

Anne Rice

Brooke Shields

Tennesee Williams

Abraham Lincoln

Trent Reznor

Harrison Ford

Jim Carrey

Princess Diana

Rodney Dangerfield

Marie Osmond

Winston Churchill

Vincent Van Gogh

All suffered from depression.

http://depression.about.com/od/famous/Famous_People_With_Depression.htm

Nice find! Very informative. Thanks.:smilecoffeecup:

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Edgar Allan Poe-Bipolar

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

the bradley guy on 60 minutes had debilitating depression, i think

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Thank you guys for all the information. I am doing my paper on Vivian Leigh. I hope I can find information about her online.

Thanx again.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Shouldn't have a problem with finding the info. I had found a ton about her when i did my psych project on Vivian Leigh.

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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

Vincent Van Gogh, I had to write a paper on him last year for school. Got an A. He suffered from depression due to unresolved issues with his mother, he self-mutilated and eventually killed himself. Email me, I can send you some more info. There are a million books on this as well.

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