Famous people with bipolar disorder

   

Famous people with bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder has left its mark on history. Many famous and accomplished people had symptoms of the illness, including:

  • Tolstoy
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Hemingway
  • Robert Lowell
  • Anne Sexton
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Winston Churchill
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Goethe
  • Balzac
  • Handel
  • Schumann
  • Berlioz

The biographies of Beethoven, Newton, and Dickens, in particular, reveal severe and debilitating recurrent mood swings beginning in childhood.

Bipolar Disorder - Bipolar Disorder is the form of depressive illness in which the sufferer has periods of being on a high, as well as periods of depression.

Treatment of Bipolar Disorder - Effective treatment is available for bipolar disorder.

 

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Remember, positive thinking will replace the negative thinking that is part of the depression and will disappear as your depression responds to treatment.

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