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Last-modified: 1994/08/07
Famous People
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Q. Who are some famous people who suffer from depression and bipolar disorder?
This list represents a few of the famous people included in a list posted to a.s.d. on a periodic basis. Much of it is taken from the book by Kay Redfield Jamison, "Touched With Fire; Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament." The Free Press (Macmillan), New York, 1993. Used without permission, but with intent to educate, and not for profit. Please send updates (or additions) to jikelman@ngdc.noaa.gov
"This is meant to be an illustrative rather than a comprehensive list... Most of the writers, composers, and artists are American, British, European, Irish, or Russian; all are deceased... Many if not most of these writers, artists, and composers had other major problems as well, such as medical illnesses, alcoholism or drug addiction, or exceptionally difficult life circumstances. They are listed here as having suffered from a mood disorder because their mood symptoms predated their other conditions, because the nature and course of their mood and behavior symptoms were consistent with a diagnosis of an independently existing affective illness, and/or because their family histories of depression, manic-depressive illness, and suicide--coupled with their own symptoms--were sufficiently strong to warrant their inclusion." (from Touched With Fire...)
KEY:
H = Asylum or psychiatric hospital
S = Suicide
SA = Suicide Attempt
**WRITERS:** Hans Christian Andersen, Honore de Balzac, James Barrie, William Faulkner (H), F. Scott Fitzgerald (H), Ernest Hemingway (H, S), Hermann Hesse (H, SA), Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, William James, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Joseph Conrad (SA), Charles Dickens, Isak Dinesen (SA), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Eugene O'Neill (H, SA), Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Tennessee Williams (H), Mary Wollstonecraft (SA), Virginia Woolf (H, S)
**COMPOSERS:** Hector Berlioz (SA), Anton Bruckner (H), George Frederic Handel, Gustav Holst, Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Giocchino Rossini, Robert Schumann (H, SA), Alexander Scriabin, Peter Tchaikovsky
**NONCLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS:** Irving Berlin (H), Noel Coward, Stephen Foster, Charles Mingus (H), Charles Parker (H, SA), Cole Porter (H)
**POETS:** William Blake, Robert Burns, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hart Crane (S) , Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot (H), Oliver Goldsmith, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Vachel Lindsay (S), James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell (H), Edna St. Vincent Millay (H), Boris Pasternak (H), Sylvia Plath (H, S), Edgar Allan Poe (SA), Ezra Pound (H), Anne Sexton (H, S), Percy Bysshe Shelley (SA), Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman
**ARTISTS:** Richard Dadd (H), Thomas Eakins, Paul Gauguin (SA), Vincent van Gogh (H, S), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S), Edward Lear, Michelangelo, Edvard Meunch (H), Georgia O'Keeffe (H), George Romney, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA)
**Confirmed Bipolars (still living):** Idi Amin, former dictator; Patty Duke (Anna Pearce), actor, writer; Connie Francis, actor, musician; Peter Gabriel, musician; Charles Haley, athlete (Dallas Cowboys); Kristy McNichols, actor; Spike Mulligan, comic actor; Abigail Padgett, mystery writer; Murray Pezim, financier (Canada); Charley Pride, musician; Axl Rose, musician; Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant (U.S.); Robin Williams, actor, comedian
**Confirmed Unipolars (still living):** Roseanne Arnold, actor, writer, comedienne (also has Multiple personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder); Dick Cavett, writer, media personality; Tony Dow, actor, director; Kitty Dukakis, Massachusetts first lady; William Styron, writer; James Taylor, musician; Mike Wallace, news anchor.
Internet Resources
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Q. What are some electronic resources on the internet related to depression?
This list is a shortened version of one compiled and maintained by
Sylvia Caras. It is posted periodically to ThisIsCrazy-L (see below
for subscription information) If you would like to suggest additions
for this list, contact
* News groups:
* Internet Health Resources is an extensive listing of medical
resources available over the internet.
* An FTP site at Temple University containing articles related to
depression
* ThisIsCrazy is an electronic action and information letter for
people who experience moods swings, fright, voices, and visions
(People Who). To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@netcom.com
with this command in the body of the message:
subscribe ThisIsCrazy-L
* Pendulum is a mailing list for people diagnosed with bipolar mood
disorder (manic depression) and related disorders and their
supporters, and some professionals. To subscribe to pendulum, send
a message to majordomo@ncar.ucar.edu containing the line
subscribe pendulum
* Walkers-in-Darkness is a list for people diagnosed with various
depressive disorders (unipolar, atypical, and bipolar depression,
S.A.D., related disorders). The list also includes sufferers of
panic attacks and Borderline Personality Disorder. Please, no
researchers trying to study us, etc. (Postings are copyrighted by
individual posters.)
To subscribe to walkers or walkers-digest, send a message to
majordomo@world.std.com containing the line "subscribe walkers" or,
for the digest, "subscribe walkers-digest". There is an anonymous
FTP site at ftp.std.com in ~/pub/walkers, that includes a technical
FAQ.
* To subscribe to the Mailbase list psychiatry send the command
SUBSCRIBE psychiatry
Q. How can I post anonymously to alt.support.depression?
You can post anonymously to alt.support.depression by using the
anonymous server in Finland. For more information about the anonymous
server, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi for an automated reply that
explains how to use the server. Special note While your posting will
appear in alt.support.depression without any indication of your
identity, your posting first has to be sent to Finland by e-mail. This
makes the contents of your message no more secure than any other
international e-mail (less secure if you don't trust the administrator
of anon.penet.fi), which is to say not very secure at all. For more
information, consult the Privacy & Anonymity on the Internet FAQ,
posted regularly to sci.crypt, comp.society.privacy, and alt.privacy.
Sources
Pamphlet: Depression: What you need to know, National Institute of
Mental Heath. By Marilyn Sargent. Office of Scientific Information
National Institute of Mental Health
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM stands
for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is
published by the American Psychiatric Association. The latest version
is the DSM-III-R (1987). For reference, the DSM-III was published in
1980. The first edition of this manual was published in 1952, and the
second edition in 1968. The fourth edition (DSM-IV) is currently in
press and should be available this summer. It is used by the vast
majority of psychologists and mental health professionals in the
United States of America as a diagnostic tool. Psychiatrists and
professionals outside of the U.S. will often use a diagnostic system
called ICD-9, which differs in many respects from the DSM.
Contributors
Becky becky@panix.com Elmont,NY
Brian Gerred gerredb@cae.wisc.edu
Dawn Sharon Friedman friedman@husc.harvard.edu
Dana Quinn dana@lassi.ece.uiuc.edu
John M. Grohol (grohol@alpha.acast.nova.edu), Nova S.E. University
Joy Ikelman jikelman@ngdc.noaa.gov Boulder, CO
kxr@netcom.com (Keith Rich)
Mary-Anne Wolf mgw@world.std.com
Rachel Findley
Robert Orenstein (rlo@netcom.com)
Silja Muller smuller@unix1.tcd.ie
Stephan Klaus Heilmayr heilmayr@math.berkeley.edu Oakland, CA
Sue W. SUE235@delphi.com
Sylvia Caras sylviac@netcom.com Owner, ThisIsCrazy-L
Todd Daniel Woodward danash@aol.com Mountain View, CA
Wes Melander melander@hplvec.lvld.hp.com
Editor: Cynthia Frazier (cf12@CORNELL.edu) Lansing, NY
Special thanks to Ivan Goldberg, MD, NY Psychopharmacologic
Inst, ikg@mindvox.phantom.com, who has provided many of the questions and
answers as well as made corrections throughout the FAQ.
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alt.support.depression
alt.support.phobias
sci.psychology
sci.med
sci.med.psychobiology
ftp2.cc.ukans.edu
cd pub/hmatrix
get file medlst03.txt or medlst03.zip.
ftp 129.32.32.98
cd/pub/psych
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