PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS ENRICH OUR LIVES

  • Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the US - Major Depression
  • Virginia Woolf - British Novelist - Bipolar Disorder
  • Lionel Aldridge - Player, Green Bay Packers - Schizophrenia
  • Eugene O’Neill - Playwright - Major Depression
  • Ludwig von Beethoven - Composer - Bipolar Disorder
  • Gaetano Donizetti - Opera Singer - Bipolar Disorder
  • Vaslov Nijinsky - Russian Ballet Dancer - Schizophrenia
  • Janet Jackson - Singer - Major Depression
  • Edgar Allan Poe - Writer - Bipolar Disorder
  • Sarah McLachlan - Singer - Major Depression
  • Ezra Pound - American poet - Schizophrenia
  • John Nash - Nobel Prize Winner - Schizophrenia
  • Elton John - Singer - Major Depression
  • Peter Green - Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac - Schizophrenia
  • Ted Turner - Media Mogul and Entrepreneur - Bipolar Disorder
  • Vincent Van Gogh - Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter - Bipolar Disorder or Schizophrenia (accounts vary)
  • Isaac Newton - Scientist - Bipolar Disorder
  • Ernest Hemingway - Pulitzer Prize winning Novelist - Major Depression
  • Sylvia Plath - Poet and Novelist - Major Depression
  • Robert Schumann - Poet - Bipolar Disorder
  • Winston Churchill - Politician and Statesman - Bipolar Disorder
  • Tennessee Williams - Playwright - Major Depression
  • Buzz Aldrin - Astronaut - Major Depression
  • Jimmy Piersall - Boston Red Sox player - Bipolar Disorder
  • Patty Duke - Academy Award winning Actress - Bipolar Disorder
  • Charles Dickens - Writer - Major Depression
  • Mike Wallace - News Correspondent - Major Depression
  • Mary Todd Lincoln - Wife of Abraham Lincoln - Schizophrenia
  • Syd Barrett - Member of Pink Floyd - Schizophrenia
  • Sheryl Crow - Singer - Major Depression

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