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Association between mental illness and creativity first appeared in academic literature in the 1970s, but speculation about a link between "madness" and "genius" dates back at least to the time of Aristotle, to whom Seneca attributes the aphorism "No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
Van Gogh, who struggled with poverty and mental illness for most of his life, is regarded as a famous example of the tortured artist. A tortured artist is a stock character and stereotype who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art, other people, or the world in general. The trope is often associated with mental illness. [1]
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 ...
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Numerous notable people have had some form of anxiety disorder.This is a list of people accompanied by verifiable source associating them with one or more anxiety-based mental health disorders based on their own public statements; this discussion is sometimes tied to the larger topic of creativity and mental illness.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Perhaps the most famous movie ever made about mental illness is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the classic from Miloš Forman.The movie, rightly considered ...
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.
British television presenter of Love Island, hanging, [164] struggled with depression and mental health issues, and the pressures of fame David Fonseca: 2015: Former Belize City mayor, gunshot to head [165] Jason David Frank: 2022: Former actor of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, hanging, [166] he was suffering with mental health issues and ...