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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.
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 ...
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."
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This category contains notable people who spent a significant portion of their lives attempting to improve the rights, treatment, and public perception of those who have a mental illness. Subcategories
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Throughout history, there have been examples of creative geniuses who grappled with psychiatric illness: Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Michelangelo, van Gogh, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath. These examples can be beneficial for psychiatrists who are looking to eradicate the stigma associated with mental illness.
Kreskin (aka The Amazing Kreskin), the renowned mentalist who had his own TV programs in the 1970s, has died. He was 89. Kreskin’s family announced the news in a statement posted on social media ...