Numerous notable people have had some form of mood disorder. This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable sources associating them with some form of bipolar disorder (formerly known as "manic depression"), including cyclothymia, based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness. In the case of dead people only, individuals with a speculative or retrospective diagnosis should only be listed if they are accompanied by a source reflective of the mainstream, academic view. Individuals should not be added to this list unless the disorder is regularly and commonly mentioned in mainstream, reliable sources.
I was re-diagnosed (after a three-day stay at the hospital) as Bipolar II
In the late 1970s, Mr. Eagleton received a diagnosis of bipolar II disorder from Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, a psychiatrist who later directed the National Institute of Mental Health.
Six years ago, Hall was diagnosed as suffering from bipolar disorder ... It took four years to find the right medication, ... The results have been spectacular, he says. "For two years, I've been really good—no weirdness, no darkness—and that's great. I can operate now."[ dead link ]
Abbie was diagnosed in 1980 as having bipolar disorder, more commonly known as manic depression.p. xvii
I have been well and free of the symptoms that are called manic-depression for almost five years, and have been working steadily and leading a happy and productive life since then.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)At these moments Vivien turned into a stranger, whom he was seemingly incapable of helping. It was the beginning of a long and tortured series of such attacks, to be diagnosed some years later as manic depression.
...again and again, pain has caused me to retreat into the darkest lair of depression, where the sick soul's desire for solitude turns into misanthropy, with invitations refused, meetings cancelled, and outstretched hands spurned. If you take that test literally - never sorry to see, never unready to talk to - I have absolutely no friends at all, and never have had. But that is a definition of depression and the withdrawal to which it leads, and my good fortune lies in the fact that as far as I know - and by now I know very far indeed - my friends are never sorry to see me or unready to talk to me.
Actress Jenifer Lewis, who appeared in Tyler Perry's film Madea's Family Reunion, recently revealed that she is bipolar and says she is finally ready to talk about it. "After years of therapy and after years of medication, I feel experienced enough now to come out and say bipolar disorder is treatable and you can get help and you don't have to live such a tortured existence," she says.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)almost surely Pitt suffered from incapacitating depression and episodic bouts of mania or hypomania that would qualify for a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Post was bipolar and had his first attack in 1921, for the rest of his life he would have to be periodically hospitalized and given electroshock, the standard treatment at that time.
Pride discusses business ventures that succeeded and those that failed, as well as his bouts with manic depression. He tells his story with no bitterness but lots of homespun advice and humor.
He was diagnosed as bipolar and certainly suffered manic depressive episodes.
Interview with her daughter.
...I was really struggling with voicing a certain aspect of my brain and emotional state and that way that it was all rolled together and you know being bipolar and how that felt and I was struggling with how to say it.See 47:06–47:13 in this video
She moved into a Krishna temple in Hertfordshire with her daughter, and struggled with bipolar disorder.
Describes in detail his struggles with manic depression
Life was hard for me at that time, when I started to have to tour and all of that stuff, because I suffer from bipolar disorder, and I was untreated for many, many years, and it was just murderous for me.
My mother and I were very similar. We both suffer from bipolar disorder.
He has been diagnosed as being manic depressive and has been in therapy
"I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it." Quotation from Weiland during an interview.