Famous People with Manic Depression WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Famous People with Manic Depression
Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a mood disorder characterized by elevated moods, or mania. These episodes tend to be followed by episodes of depression. Periods of elevated moods followed by depression may alternate rapidly, or may be separated by periods of normal moods. We've listed some of the famous people thought to have experienced manic depression below.1
Fast Facts:
- Actors and actresses with manic depression: Maurice Benard, Richard Dreyfuss, Carrie Fisher, Tony Slattery, and Jean-Claude Van Damme.2
- Authors and poets with manic depression: Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Faulkner, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and John Keats.23
- Musicians with manic depression: Ozzy Osbourne, Kurt Cobain, Macy Gray, Ray Davies, Ben Moody, and Axl Rose.2
- Political leaders who may have had manic depression: Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Napoleon Buonaparte, and Alexander The Great.3
- Our OrganizedWisdom quiz can give you more insight on symptoms of manic depression.
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Research Notes References
- ↑ Wikipedia: Bipolar Disorder
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wikipedia: List of People Believed to Have Been Affected by Bipolar Disorder
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Manic Depression Fellowship: Famous People with Manic Depression
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- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Manic Depression and Famous People, Celebrities with Manic Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Celebrities, Celebrities with bipolar disorder
- Last update: Mar. 26, 2009
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