Famous Writers And Artists With Bipolar Manic Depressive
Bipolar maniac depressive, a psychiatric disorder, refers to abnormality in the moods and the disorder causes mood swings. Depending upon the elevated level or milder level, it is called mania or hypomania. People with this order often become depressed. In some case, it leads to hallucinations or delusions. The three classification of this disorder based on the nature of symptoms and severity are bipolar I and II and cyclothymia.
Depression and mania affect all of us cyclically but the intensity vary in some people leading to disorders affecting normal living, daily activities and also thinking. Through psychiatric counseling and treatment, one can come out of this disorder.
The main symptoms of this disorder are insomnia or sleeplessness, restlessness, anxiety, irritability, confused and unstable state of mind, disorientation, appetite loss, memory loss, and feeling of inferiority and worthlessness.
The famous personalities listed below have had different intensities of this disorder. While some managed to fight it out, few succumbed and committed suicide.
Some of the authors or writers who have or had this disorder are Charles Baudelaire, Andy Behrman, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carrie Fisher, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Stephen Fry, Alan Garner, Graham Greene, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Hermann Hesse, Marya Hornbacher, Kate Millett, Spike Milligan, Edgar Allan Poe, Sidney Sheldon, Stuart Sutherland, Mark Twain, Maxim Gorky and Kurt Vonnegut.
Poets including Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, John Keats, Sylvia Plath, Sara Teasdale and Virginia Woolf were victims of bipolar manic depressive.
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