VIDEO - A-Z of famous people with Bipolar Disorder

VIDEO - A-Z of famous people with Bipolar Disorder

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This video has names (along with their pictures) of famous people or celebrities (past and present) who are or have been sufferers of Bipolar disorder which is a form of mental or psychological illness. It needs to be pointed out that mental or psychological illness is hugely misunderstood in the world.

Mental or psychological illness does not mean that a person is mentally deficient however that person still goes through catastrophic phases which can be minimized or completely eliminated in later life with self-awareness, medical and psychological help etc. Hence such a person has the potential to lead a productive life but it depends on a lot of factors including luck, family support and timely medical solution.

LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0pOXp_t4JU

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The video on famous people with Bipolar disorder that was aired on WhatsApp two days back has information sourced from Wikipedia which is not 100% authentic though it does tell us the truth about many famous people. For example Winston Churchill (Prime Minister UK), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Writer and Poet), Sidney Sheldon (Producer, Writer) did not have Bipolar Disorder but they had chronic depression which is just one part of Bipolar Disorder. Some others in this video like Isaac Newton also did not have this ailment most probably.

As we know that “Bi” in Bipolar means “double” or “two”. Patients of Bipolar disorder are basically characterized by overlapping phases of chronic depression and mania. The severity and the pattern vary from one patient to another.

However, many others in this video did or do have Bipolar disorder like Earnest Hemingway (Nobel Prize winner for Literature who wrote novels like ‘For whom the bell tolls’ and ‘A farewell to Arms’, apart from others, both of which were made into Hollywood films), Stephen Fry (actor), Jaun Claude Van Damme (actor in action movies), Lord Byron (Poet) etc. etc. etc.

A little additional information is also given here verified from other sources which is eye-opening: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21894105/

- by S Roman Ahsan (August 02, 2020)