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Remember that schizophrenia is an illness that varies with severity. Regarding posthumous diagnoses: only a few famous people are believed to have been affected by schizophrenia. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them.
Pages in category "People with schizophrenia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 353 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Famous People With Schizophrenia Zelda Fitzgerald. As the wife of The Great Gatsby writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and a talented writer and artist in her own right, Zelda Fitzgerald is best-known for ...
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 ...
The stigmatising confusion arises in part due to Bleuler's own use of the term schizophrenia, which for many signalled a split mind, and his documenting of a number of cases with split personalities within his classic 1911 description of schizophrenia. The earliest known use of the term to mean "split personality" was by psychologist G. Stanley ...
Image credits: Francois G. Durand/Getty Images #6 Ian Smith. The 86-year-old actor shared the sobering news of being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer on December 2. Smith, known for his role as ...
Witnessing his sister’s journey inspired Diggs to help make people aware that “no one’s life is over” when facing a schizophrenia diagnosis. “When you get news like we did, you don't ...
By the end of the 1980s, he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia [12] and institutionalized for two months after his diagnosis. [13] During childhood, Willis developed an interest in art, and in 1988, he was featured in a Chicago public access documentary feature created by Carl W. Hart titled Wesley Willis: Artist of the Streets. [14]