This story has been shared 8, times. By Page Six Team. View author archive Get author RSS feed. Name required. Email required. Comment required. Enlarge Image. Demi Lovato Demi Lovato Getty Images Lovato, 28, has said she felt relieved when she received her bipolar diagnosis during a stay at the Timberline Knolls facility in David LaChapelle David LaChapelle Getty Images The year-old Chappelle — known for his vibrant photography and music video work — has been hospitalized twice while battling bipolar disorder.
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Bella Hadid admits she cries pretty much 'everyday' and 'every night'. Carrie Fisher's portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy turned her into a pop-culture icon. However, partly due to her tumultuous childhood, she struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. In her early twenties, Fisher was told she was hypomanic, but she didn't believe her doctor.
Over time, however, she came to terms with her condition and became a bestselling author, writing books such as Postcards From the Edge and Surrender the Pink. Becoming a mother was the impetus for this change. While his movie career took off, Van Damme's personal life was unraveling. He divorced four times, was charged with spousal abuse, and was addicted to cocaine. However, things started to come together after his diagnosis of rapid-cycling bipolar. He told E! In one week, I felt it kick in.
All the commotion around me, all the water around me, moving left and right around me, became like a lake. She also starred in the TV series Beauty and the Beast. Despite her professional success, she was self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, and her bipolar mood swings damaged two marriages. Hamilton struggled with symptoms of bipolar disorder for 20 years, a time she calls the "lost years. However, as her fame grew in her twenties, she began to suffer from depression.
O'Connor's depression steadily got worse, including suicidal thoughts, until she was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the age of She talked openly about living with this condition on The Oprah Winfrey Show in The legendary artist Vincent van Gogh painted some of the world's best-known works, such as The Starry Night. However, he is also remembered for his difficult, eccentric, and moody personality. There is no consensus on what medical condition fueled van Gogh's behavior, though some suspect epilepsy , depression, psychotic attacks, and bipolar disorder.
An published in the American Journal of Psychiatry says: "Van Gogh had earlier suffered two distinct episodes of reactive depression, and there are clearly bipolar aspects to his history.
Both episodes of depression were followed by sustained periods of increasingly high energy and enthusiasm, first as an evangelist and then as an artist.
The 20th-century English novelist and essayist Virginia Woolf is said to have expanded the boundaries of the novel with works such as Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. She suffered mood swings and breakdowns throughout her life. An article in the American Journal of Psychiatry explains her behavior: "From the age of 13, Woolf had symptoms that today would be diagnosed as bipolar disorder; she experienced mood swings from severe depression to manic excitement and episodes of psychosis.
In her own time, however, psychiatry had little to offer her. She went on to work for the network's Dateline and later had her own talk show. At the age of 50, Pauley began experiencing episodes of depression and mania. It is thought that steroids used to treat hives kick-started her symptoms, which were diagnosed as bipolar disorder. Among famous people with bipolar disorder is the Emmy-winning actress Mariette Hartley, who has appeared in numerous television shows and starred in a popular series of commercials in the s.
However, her family life was troubled — she lost both her father and an uncle to suicide, and her mother also attempted to take her own life.
In , Hartley started having suicidal thoughts and was misdiagnosed with depression , and later ADD. Here, Duke appears as a witness before a House Appropriations Subcommittee holding hearings on funding for mental health programs on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. Super-talented British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse suffered from substance abuse and bipolar disorder. She was not known to have sought treatment for her bipolar disorder.
Winehouse herself linked her drinking to depression. The five-time Grammy Award winner died July 23, , at age 27, from alcohol poisoning. Her last album "Back to Black" was issued posthumously.
The soap world took after real life when the show created a storyline with Benard's character, Sonny Corinthos, diagnosed with bipolar disorder when Benard let it be known he was bipolar.
Head writer Bob Guza said, "Maurice wasn't just playing it, he was living it. And he went to some scary, scary places. Benard is a spokesperson for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. He reminds people about the importance of treatment, saying if he doesn't take his medication, lithium, he has a breakdown. Linda Hamilton of "Terminator" fame says she struggled with depression most of her life and was a compulsive eater.
She counts from the age of 20 to 40 as her lost years, until she was diagnosed as bipolar in the s. She said she was the opposite of her "Terminator" character Sarah Connor and suffered horribly with severe mood swings. After diagnosis and treatment she told AP radio, "My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain committed suicide in at age He suffered from substance abuse in addition to having mental health problems.
There was also a history of suicide in his family. Kurt Cobain's cousin, Bev Cobain, a registered nurse with a background in mental health, spoke about Kurt being diagnosed at a young age with Attention Deficit Disorder and then with bipolar disorder.
He did not pursue appropriate treatment, though, she said. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, one of the great leaders of World War II, often referred to his bouts of intense, prolonged depression as his "black dog. Churchill's doctor, Lord Moran, wrote in his memoir "Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival" that he had diagnosed the prime minister with bipolar disorder. Despite his personal battles, or perhaps because of it, Churchill was a man of immense accomplishments.
World renowned Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh is legendary for paintings such as The Starry Night which continue to draw huge museum crowds. He may be as well known for his eccentricities and a tragic history that includes cutting off his part of his ear during a bout of depression. Though there have been several attempts to diagnose Van Gogh's behavior and problems , there is strong evidence that leads many experts to believe he suffered from bipolar disorder.
The artist fluctuated between extreme mania and depression. He ultimately committed suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at age Chrome Safari Continue. Be the first to know. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
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