Some Cool People who have suffered from Depression or Bipolar Disorder:
Confirmed Bipolar (still living)
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce)actor, writer
Connie Francisactor, musician
Peter Gabriel,musician
Charles Haley, athlete (Dallas Cowboys)
Kristy McNichols, actor
Spike Mulligan, comic actor
Abigail Padgett, mystery writer
Murray Pezim, financier (Canada)
Charley Pride, musician
Axl Rose, musician
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant (US)
Robin Williams, actor, comedian
Confirmed Unipolars (still living)
Roseanne Arnold actor, writer, comedienne (also has Multiple personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder)
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality
Tony Dow, actor, director
Kitty DukakisMassachusetts first lady
William Styron writer
James Taylor musician
Mike Wallace, news anchor.
Cool Cats who publicly stated that they have experienced manic depression in their lives.
· Buzz Aldrin, astronaut ·
Shelley Beattie, athlete (bodybuilding, sailing)
Ned Beatty,
Maurice Benard, actor ·
Robert Boorstin, writer, special assistant to Pres. Clinton, State Department ·
Art Buchwald, writer, humorist ·
Alohe Jean Burke (Ghafoor), musician, vocalist ·
Tim Burton, artist, movie director ·
Robert Campeau, financier (Canada) ·
Lisa Nicole Carson, actor ·
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality ·
C.E. Chaffin, writer, poet ·
Rosemary Clooney, singer ·
Garnet Coleman, legislator (Texas) ·
Francis Ford Coppola, director ·
Patricia Cornwell, writer ·
John Daly, athlete (golf) ·
Ray Davies, musician ·
Lenny Dee, musician ·
Eric Douglas, actor ·
Robert Downey, Jr., actor ·
Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of Massachusetts ·
Patty Duke (Anna Duke Pearce), actor, writer ·
Thomas Eagleton, lawyer, former U.S. Senator ·
Margot Early, writer ·
Robert Evans, film producer ·
Carrie Fisher, writer, actor ·
Larry Flynt, magazine publisher ·
Connie Francis, actor, musician ·
Kaye Gibbons, writer ·
Kit Gingrich, Newt's Mom ·
Shecky Greene, comedian, actor ·
Linda Hamilton, actor ·
Kristin Hersh, musician ·
Jack Irons, musician ·
Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist, writer ·
Daniel Johnston, musician ·
Margot Kidder, actor ·
Peter Nolan Lawrence, writer (England) ·
Rika Lesser, writer, translator ·
Bill Lichtenstein, producer (TV & radio) ·
Jay Marvin, radio personality, writer ·
Kevin McDonald, comedian, actor ·
Kristy McNichol, actor ·
Dimitri Mihalas, scientist ·
Kate Millett, writer, artist ·
Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer ·
John Mulheren, financier (U.S.) ·
Robert Munsch, writer ·
Ilie Nastase, athlete (tennis), politician ·
Margo Orum, writer ·
Nicola Pagett, actor ·
Susan Panico (Susan Dime-Meenan), business executive ·
Jimmie Piersall, athlete (baseball), sports announcer ·
Charley Pride, musician ·
Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), musician ·
Jeannie C. Riley, musician ·
Lynn Rivers, U.S. Congress ·
Alys Robi, vocalist (Canada) ·
Axl Rose, musician ·
Francesco Scavullo, artist, photographer ·
Lori Schiller, writer, educator ·
Frances Sherwood, writer ·
Scott Simmie, writer, journalist ·
Earl Simmons (DMX), musician, actor ·
Alonzo Spellman, athlete (football) ·
Muffin Spencer-Devlin, athlete (pro golf) ·
Gordon Sumner (Sting), musician, composer ·
Lili Taylor, actor ·
Jean-Claude Van Damme, athlete (martial arts), actor ·
Mark Vonnegut, doctor, writer ·
Sol Wachtler, judge, writer ·
Tom Waits, musician, composer ·
Brian Wilson, musician (Beach Boys), composer, arranger ·
Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist ·
Luther Wright, athlete (basketball)
others cool cats who are said to have suffered from depression.....
WRITERS
Hans Christian Andersen
Honore de Balzac
James Barrie
William Faulkner (H)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (H)
Ernest Hemingway (H, S)
Hermann Hesse (H, SA)
Henrik Ibsen, Henry James
William James
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Joseph Conrad (SA)
Charles Dickens
Isak Dinesen (SA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
Eugene O'Neill (H, SA,
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Leo Tolstoy
Tennessee Williams (H)
Mary Wollstonecraft (SA)
Virginia Woolf (H, S)
COMPOSERS
Hector Berlioz (SA)
Anton Bruckner (H)
George Frederic Handel
Gustav Holst, Charles Ives
Gustav Mahler
Modest Mussorgsky
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Giocchino Rossini
Robert Schumann (H, SA)
Alexander Scriabin
Peter Tchaikovsky
NONCLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS
Irving Berlin (H)
Noel Coward
Stephen Foster
Charles Mingus (H)
Charles Parker (H, SA)
Cole Porter (H)
POETS
William Blake
Robert Burns
George Gordon
Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hart Crane (S)
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot (H)
Oliver Goldsmith
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Victor Hugo
Samuel Johnson
John Keats
Vachel Lindsay (S)
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell (H)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (H)
Boris Pasternak (H)
Sylvia Plath (H, S)
Edgar Allan Poe (SA)
Ezra Pound (H)
Anne Sexton (H, S)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (SA)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Walt Whitman
ARTISTS
Richard Dadd (H)
Thomas Eakins
Paul Gauguin (SA)
Vincent van Gogh (H, S)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S)
Edward Lear, Michelangelo
Edvard Meunch (H)
Georgia O'Keeffe (H)
George Romney
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA)
references:
Kay Redfield Jamison, "Touched With Fire; Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament." The Free Press (Macmillan), New York, 1993.
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