Madmen, Madwomen

WRITERS DETERMINED/CONSIDERED MENTALLY DISTURBED

deBalzac bipolar disorder
John Berryman
Art Buckwald depression
Charles Dickens manic depression
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald
Goethe bipolar disorder
Ernest Hemingway suicidal depression [in later years]
James Joyce
John Keats
Robert Lowell bipolar disorder
Nietzsche
Eugene O'Neill clinical depression
Dorothy Parker
Sylvia Plath suicidal depression
William Styron
Tolstoy
Tennessee Williams clinical depression
Virginia Woolf bipolar disorder

ACTORS CONSIDERED MENTALLY ILL

Drew Carey depression
Tony Dow depression
Patty Duke [Astin] bipolar disorder
Margot Kidder bipolar disorder
Vivien Leigh bipolar disorder
Rod Steiger depression
Tracey Ullman bipolar

MUSICIANS, VISUAL ARTISTS, SCIENTISTS, and OTHER WELL-KNOWN MADMEN and MADWOMEN

Lionel Aldridge paranoid schizophrenia
Diane Arbus depression
Beethoven manic depression/bipolar disorder
Daniel Boorstin bipolar disorder
Kurt Cobain
Winston Churchill bipolar disorder
Gaetano Donizetti bipolar disorder
Kitty Dukakis bipolar disorder
Thomas Eagleton depression
Einstein
George Frederick Handel bipolar disorder
Frida Kahlo
Abraham Lincoln suicidal depression
Gustav Mahler bipolar disorder
Michelangelo
Isaac Newton
Vaslov Nijinsky schizophrenia
Georgia O’Keefe
Jimmy Piersall
Bertrand Russell
Robert Schumann bipolar disorder
Ted Turner bipolar disorder
Vincent Van Gogh depression
Sol Wachtler bipolar disorder
Mike Wallace depression