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

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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

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Specializes in NICU, Psych, Education.

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.

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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

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Specializes in Urgent Care.

Kurt Cobain or Ozzy Osbourne

Rosie O Donnell

Charles Manson?

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

Vivian Leigh ("Scarlett" from "Gone With The Wind"), bipolar disorder

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Specializes in Junior Year of BSN.

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

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Here's an article from Psychology Today that might help you out: Celebrity Meltdown

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Specializes in Neuro.

I had to write a paper like that and did mine on Virginia Woolf.

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Specializes in Oncology.

Howard Hughes

Check out the movie "The Aviator"

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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.

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Specializes in Staff nurse.

Sylvia Plath

Abe Lincoln's wife, Mary

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