Some Famous People Who Suffer from Mood Disorder : Writers, Composers, Artists, Personality

Writers

Hans Christian Andersen, Honore de Balzac, James Barrie, Arthur Benson (H), E.F. Benson, James Boswell, William Faulkner (H), F. Scott Fitzgerald (H), Lewis Grassic Gibbon (SA), Nikolai Gogl, Maxim Gorky (SA), Kenneth Graham, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway (H, S), Hermann Hesse (H, SA), Henrik Ibsen, William Inge (H.S), Henry James, William James, Charles Lamb (H), Malcolm Lowry (H, S), John Bunyan, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Joseph Conrad (SA), Charles Dickens, Isak Dinesen (SA), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Eugene O'Neill (H, SA), Francis Parkman, John Ruskin (H), Mary Shelley, Jean Stafford (H), Robert Louis Stevenson, August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Tennessee Williams (H), Mary Wollstonecraft (SA), Virginia Woolf (H.S), Emile Zola.

Composers

Anton Arensky, Hector Berlioz (SA), Anton Bruckner (H), Jeremiah Clarke (S), John Dowland, Edward Elgar, Carlo Gesualdo, Mikhail Glinka, George Frederic Handel, Gustav Holst, Charles Ives, Otto Klemperer (H), Orlando de Lassus, Gustav Mahler, Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Giocchino Rossini, Robert Schumann (H.SA), Alexander Scriagbin, Peter Tchaikovsky, Peter Warlock (S), Hugo Wolf (H.SA), Bernd Alois Zimmerman (S)

Artists

Ralph Barton (S), Francesco Bassano (S), Ralph Blakelock (H), David Bomberg, Francesco Borromini (S), John Sell Cotman, Richard Dadd (H), Edward Dayes (S), Thomas Eakins, Paul Gauguin (SA), Theodore Gericault, Hugo van der Goes, Vincent van Gogh (H, S), Arshile Gorky (S), Philip Guston (H), Benjamin Haydon (S0, Carl Hill (H), Ernst Josephson (H), George Innes (SA), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S), Edwin Landseer (H), Edward Lear, Wilhelm Lehmbruck (S), John Martin, Charles Meryon (H), Michelangelo, Adolphe Monticelli, Edvard Meunch (H), Jules Pascin (S), Georgia O'Keeffe (H), Raphaelle Peal (H), Jackson Pollock (H), George Romney, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA), Mark Rothko (S), Nicolas de Stael (S), Pietro Testa (S), Henry Tilson (S), George Frederic Watts, Sir David Wilkie, Anders Zorn

Almost 300 names of well known people who have received a psychiatric diagnosis of mental illness. Some of the names here are duplicated from other lists.

Louis Althusser, Mahatma Gandhi, according to his biographer Eric Erickson, Ajax, according to Aristotle, Lionel Aldridge, Buzz Aldrin, astronaut, Hans Christian Andersen, writer, Diane Arbus, Anton Arensky, musician, Antonin Artaud, poet, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), author, James Barrie, writer, Ralph Barton, artist, Konstantin Barysuhkov, poet, Francesco Bassano

Personality

Paul Celan, artist, Benvenuto Cellini, artist, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), English poet, Christian VII, Danish, Agatha Christie, mystery writer, Sarah Churchill, attendant to Queen Anne and ancestor of Winston, Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister, John Clare (1793-1864), poet, Jeremiah Clarke, musician, Camille Claudel, sculptor, Samuel Clemens, writer, Rosemary Clooney, singer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), poet, William Collins (1721-1759), Georgian poet, Joseph Conrad, , Copernicus, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic), Frances Ford Coppola, , John Sell Cotman, artist, Noel Coward, musician, William Cowper (1731-1800), , Hart Crane, poet, Rene Crevel, artist, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), English politician, Richard Dadd, artist, George Darley, poet, Charles Darwin, Daumier, , John Davidson, poet, Edward Dayes, artist, Charles Dickens, author, Emily Dickinson, poet, Isak Dinesen, writer, Gaetano Donizetti, Dostoyevsky, author, John Dowland, musician, Ernest Dowson, poet, Kitty Dukakis, Massachusetts first lady, Patty Duke, actress, Alexander Dumas, author, Albrecht Durer, engraver, Thomas Eagleton, politician, Thomas Eakins, artist, Russell Edson, poet, Edward Elgar, musician, T S Eliot, poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, Empedocles, according to Aristotle, Sergei Esenin, Russian poet, Michael Farady, physicist, William Faulkner, writer, James Forrestal, investment banker, Navy Sec'y under FDR, Foster, musician, George Fox (1624-1691), Society of Friends (Quakers) founder, Francis, singer, Huey Freeman, playwright, Sigmund Freud, physician, Gustaf Froding, poet Romain Gary, author, George III, Theodore Goericault, , Carlo Gesualdo, musician, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer, Mikhail Glinka, musician

	More Articles
1. Alternative Medicine: Trying Something Natural Alternative Medicine: Trying Something Natural Many of those who live with depression as part of their daily lives want to use something other than antidepressants to help [...]
2. Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Symptoms and Treatment Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Symptoms and Treatment People with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) worry about their appearance. They worry, for example, that their skin is scarred, their [...]
3. Depression Self Help Depression Self Help Sometimes it gets so hard that you just want to give in. This is all part of depression, please don't succumb to the desire to hurt or [...]
4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, involves anxious thoughts or rituals you feel you can't control. If you have OCD, you may be [...]