Famous bipolars

Wow!, this list sure is inspiring. makes feel like i could do so much more. I have a question does taking medication impair your functions like creativity. I think it kinda does. I feel like a zombie on my meds. More like a robot. Somedays i like feeling like this while other days I kinda miss the emotional connection, joy. If i didn't exercise and get that high feeling afterwords I think I would be like a sunken ship. I'm about to start college with my new meds, which are 200MG lamitrogen and 800MG seroqual xr. I'm hoping that this robot feeling works out for my studies. Only thing I can say right now is that I'm hoping that this works out. I don't want to be adjusting my meds while in school it gets really bad.

Madonna, Katie Couric.

Robert Downey Jr denied being bipolar in an interview. He said that some experts have called him bipolar in the past, but he doesn't believe he has it. From an outsider's glance it does seem like he has bipolar (or some similar illness). But he'd know better than we do.

A lot of the listed celebrities on page one do not have manic-depression. I'm sure many of them have have depression, but not bipolar. Jimi Hendrix wrote a song on it, but we know very little off the man's personal life or personage. Burton likely had depression, but never heard word of bipolar.

Here's an interview with Carrie Fisher where she talks about her bipolar disorder with Pamela Connely, a Clinical Psychologist. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shrink-rap/4od

Devin Townsend, musician from Canada. Was the frontman for Strapping young lad, but now he works on solo projects.

After the completion of City and Biomech, Townsend began to approach a mental breakdown. "I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat," he explained, "life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand." In 1997, he checked himself into a mental-health hospital, where he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The diagnosis helped him understand where the two sides of his music were coming from; he felt his disorder "gave birth to the two extremes that are Strapping's City record and Ocean Machine's Biomech."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm-eXzMdfro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u81zmQrib9g
Yup.

The wonderfully talented emilie autumn =)

Sinead o'connor

I think celebrities like to claim they're BP without knowing what the term means, the same way people toss around antisocial for people who don't socialize much. How many of them self-diagnosed themselves without a doctor?

Here's one example

http://www.ivillage.com/robert-pattinso ... /1-a-65157

"Maybe Robert Pattinson is so good at playing a tortured soul because he has some real-life experience. The Twilight star just told a British magazine that he's 'a manic depressive.' Although he hasn't been diagnosed by a doctor, Pattinson says that the condition is obvious to him, especially when he's in a relationship:

'You over-analyze everything -- you analyze how if you say one thing, someone likes you, and if you say another, they don't. You begin to experiment on people, which isn't good for real life. I don't think I'm very romantic any more -- just manic depressive.'"

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It makes Pattinson look and sound like a brilliant actor, especially when credited to have experience, when what he describes sounds typical of anyone in a relationship when their security is in question. How's that a sign of bipolar? That's my opinion of cheapening Bipolar.



I don't like the idea of faslely boosting people's esteem with famous bipolars because it makes me want to stop taking my meds when I read them. Say that list of famous bipolars is all legitimate, it's still a small sample of the population. But still, of all the famous bipolars compared to non-famous ones, how many failed bipolars ended up leading a miserable, unknown life and dying alone homeless in an alley somewhere? That's a real concern from me and question to everyone who takes comfort and gets grandiose from all this.

Don't forget Max Bemis (singer of Say Anything).