Famous person with mental illness

by mani3433
Mar 25, '07   Views: 4,110   Comments: 35

  1. 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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  3. by GingerSue
    Mar 25, '07
    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/montrealgazett...b-ccb41e5dd020
    Last edit by GingerSue on Mar 25, '07 : Reason: link
  4. by EricJRN
    Mar 25, '07
    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.
  5. by firstyearstudent
    Mar 25, '07
    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
  6. by Achoo!
    Mar 25, '07
    Kurt Cobain or Ozzy Osbourne
    Rosie O Donnell
    Charles Manson?
  7. by Marie_LPN, RN
    Mar 25, '07
    Vivian Leigh ("Scarlett" from "Gone With The Wind"), bipolar disorder
    Last edit by Marie_LPN, RN on Mar 25, '07
  8. by Cherish
    Mar 25, '07
    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/famou...Depression.htm
  9. by zooz
    Mar 26, '07
    Here's an article from Psychology Today that might help you out: Celebrity Meltdown
  10. by Megsd
    Mar 26, '07
    I had to write a paper like that and did mine on Virginia Woolf.
  11. by luvmypatients
    Mar 26, '07
    Howard Hughes
    Check out the movie "The Aviator"
  12. by noggin_wise
    Mar 26, '07
    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.
  13. by psalm
    Mar 26, '07
    Sylvia Plath
    Abe Lincoln's wife, Mary
  14. by Marie_LPN, RN
    Mar 26, '07
    Abe Lincoln himself.

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