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

Any of the Hemmingway's- for generations, most have resorted to suicide. May be interesting to add the family spin on it. Great ideas above as well.

To the poster who said Lincoln had a mental illness- Which one? I knew he is suspected of having Marfan's but nevre heard of a mental illness theory.

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I have heard that Lincoln was to have had severe depression.

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Any of the Hemmingway's- for generations, most have resorted to suicide. May be interesting to add the family spin on it. Great ideas above as well.

To the poster who said Lincoln had a mental illness- Which one? I knew he is suspected of having Marfan's but nevre heard of a mental illness theory.

It was labeled 'melancholy' back then.

But it's been figured he had major clinical depression, he talked often of suicide, and some psychologists believe he might have been paranoid schizophrenic, since he was always afraid of dying, always thought he would get murdered, had dreams about it.

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Patty Duke

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Thanks for the info on Lincoln. I think I need to study up on American history a bit better!!

On a side note, my uncle (thru marriage) is related to him somehow and I remember hearing stories when I was a kid about some crazy skeletons in the closet in the family. Something about a murder or two over land and someone cooking someone in an oven- I wish I remembered it all!!

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Apparently Lincoln's whole family had some sort of mental problem in some form.

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wow..I myself am a descendant of Abe Lincoln...for real..:uhoh21:

other famous people with mental illness I can think of are:

Courtney Love

Britney Spears

Tom Cruise...lol (just kidding..had to throw that out there)

Adolph Hitler

Jane Pauley

Joan Crawford ( no more wire hangers!!!)

Robin Williams

Drew Carey

(I know before I had Diane sawyer but I had that little light bulb go off in my brain .....oops..my bad!!! )

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mani343, I'm just curious which person you decided to do your paper on, if it's not being too nosy. :sofahider

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mani343, I'm just curious which person you decided to do your paper on, if it's not being too nosy. :sofahider

Hi,

I am doing my paper on Vivian leigh.

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I think Van Gogh had BPD

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"It was labeled 'melancholy' back then.

But it's been figured he had major clinical depression, he talked often of suicide, and some psychologists believe he might have been paranoid schizophrenic, since he was always afraid of dying, always thought he would get murdered, had dreams about it. " from Marie, LPN

Guess he wasnt too far off the mark, ay?

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Hi,

I am doing my paper on Vivian leigh.

Ooooh, very interesting. Good luck and let us know how it goes. ;)

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