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Famous bipolars

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Monday, February 7, 2011 3:24 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Dunno if it'll interest anyone, but I thought I'd offer it. There are a LOT of famous people throughout history who suffered mental disorders. The stigma is pretty bad, even now, but I wanted to show you that we bipolars alone are among a pretty damned good group of creative people.

Just look up “famous people with bipolarity” and you’ll get pages of hits. But a lot of them are only lists, with no background. So I’ve been collecting information on famous bipolars off and on for a while, looking for specific quotes, documentation, etc. The compilation below is only partial, and includes both living and deceased celebrities. Living celebrities include only those who have publicly stated they have experienced or have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I’m still looking for information on those with no information after their names. There are many, many more on the lists, I’m just adding them as I find info and keeping some of the other, more famous names, for when I do find it.

Buzz Aldrin, astronaut (Aldrin suffered from bipolar disorder, resulting in bouts of depression. His books, Magnificent Desolation and Return to earth all provide accounts of his struggles with bipolarity and alcoholism during the years after retirement.)

Art Buchwald, writer, and humorist (During his life, Art Buchwald also experienced his bouts with mental illness, being hospitalized in 1963 for clinical depression, and again in 1987 for manic depression.)

Jim Carrey (Carrey himself made it public and disclosed that he was suffering from depression. He suffered from bipolarity even at the peak of success, which he publicly acknowledged and asked for help. He acknowledged the “peaks and valleys”...)

Tim Burton, artist, movie director (Re Alice in Wonderland: Tim Burton himself know’s madness quite well, for he is in fact is bipolar, and even cast others in the film who are openly bipolar such as Stephen Fry who voiced the Cheshire Cat.)

Dick Cavett, writer, media personality (Dick Cavett was one of the first celebrities to talk publicly about his experiences with major depression. In 1980, after an episode in which he became manic, Cavett was given electroshock therapy. A court document dismissing portions of a lawcuit includes this: "It is undisputed that Cavett has a lengthy history of mental illness, and has in the past been diagnosed as suffering from manic-depressive illness.")

Francis Ford Coppola, director

Rosemary Clooney, singer (In 1968, after the trauma of being present when her good friend Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, she suffered a raging manic episode onstage and soon was hospitalized for psychiatric care, at times in a double-locked ward because she had become so violent. Her therapy continued for several years. An autobiography, This for Remembrance, which describes her bipolar illness, was published in 1977.)

Ray Davies, musician

Gordon Sumner (Sting), musician, composer (He publicly admitted being manic depressive during his time with The Police. He added he was suicidal during that time.)

Patty Duke (Anna Duke Pearce), actress, writer (Duke suffered from bipolarity, including mania and depression. Duke became a mental health advocate, sharing her experiences with the public. She also helped many people with mental health problems.)

Liz Taylor, actor

Carrie Fisher, writer, actor (Fisher publicly acknowledged her struggles with bipolar disorder. She suffered a psychotic break during a deep depression.)

Larry Flynt, magazine publisher

Connie Francis, actress, musician (In 1981 she was diagnosed as being manic depressive. She is said to have undergone shock treatments which were helpful. In 1991 she suffered a collapse due to lithium toxicity.)

Shecky Greene, comedian, actor

Linda Hamilton, actress (She was diagnosed at a young age with bipolar disorder, but resisted treatment until she was around 40 years old. In 1997 Linda Hamilton told interviewer Luaine Lee, "I'm on anti-depressants now. I will be on them for the rest of my life. It changed my world. There's depression, but also that extreme brilliant high. My manic spells are manageable and are great. But what happens is then, all of a sudden, you plunge, one day you wake up with a gigantic lump in your throat. And there it is. So I would fall down and just not be able to get myself up.” Her father was diagnosed bipolar as well.)

Mariette Hartley, actor (Mariette was diagnosed with severe depression in 1994 while experiencing a suicidal episode. The prescribed antidepressants sent her into mania. That, she says, was when she realized that something else was going on. But even then she was first diagnosed with ADD, before finally being diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. She said "If you are on the right medication now, for God's sake stay on it and don't change," she said to USA Today, "but if it doesn't seem to be working, then go to a doctor and find the right one for you." GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturers of Lamictal, hired her to let people know that their lives can return to balance if diagnosed and bipolar disorder is treated properly. Mariette Hartley co-founded the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. After her father committed suicide in 1963, her mother attempted suicide. In an interview with USA Today, she said she lost two more bipolar family members to suicide as well -- an uncle in 1959 and a beloved cousin 1998.)

Margot Kidder, actress (In April of 1996, actress Margot Kidder's bipolar disorder swung entirely out of control. A manic episode during which, in her own words, she "... started speeding up, chainsmoking, drinking coffee and staying up around the clock," led to her becoming delusional. According to a Reuters story quoted in the Edmonton Journal, Kidder was missing for three days before being found by police in a state which was described as "dirty, frightened and paranoid." In June 2000 Kidder wrote, "My health is great, due to this natural medicine path I'm following..." She has become an advocate for natural and herbal treatments for psychiatric conditions, including orthomolecular medicine.)

Vivien Leigh, actor (It was stepson Tarquin Olivier’s opinion that losing her baby in 1944 on the set of Cesar and Cleaopatra "caused her manic depression to come forward" (Biography, 2000). Bipolar disorder was little understood at that time. Lithium was not yet in use, and the only treatment she received was shock therapy, which was not then administered with the same level of care as today. Tarquin Olivier saw burns on his stepmother's temples at times from her shock treatments.)

Kristy McNichol, actress (Contrary to the rumors, Kristy McNichol is not crazy, and not a drug addict. She has bipolar affective disorder, also known as manic-depression.) McNichol retired from acting when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1992.

Mel Gibson, actor, (Mel Gibson had a hard time with depression, and was reported to be suffering from bipolar disorder. He planned to kill himself one night during a show, which was attributed to his inability to control his bipolar disorder. He spent some time in rehabilitation for his alcoholism.)

Jimi Hendrix, musician

Curt Cobain, musician (Kurt was diagnosed at a young age with Attention Deficit Disorder [ADD], then later with bipolar disorder [also known as manic-depression].)

Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer

Ned Beatty, actor (In an interview for the Charlotte Observer, Ned Beatty spoke with reporter Luaine Lee regarding the fact that he has bipolar disorder (manic depression). “I’ve had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don’t call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I’m a Type 2”)

Charley Pride, musician

Ben Stiller, actor (In August of 2001 he was quoted by a Hollywood.com writer as saying to GQ, "I have not been an easygoing guy. It's called bipolar manic depression. I've got a rich history of that in my family.)

Jean-Claude Van Damme, athlete (martial arts), actor (He was formally diagnosed with rapid cycling bipolar disorder and placed on sodium valproate, which he calls "that simple salt." E! Online quoted him as saying, "You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! 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.")

Ted Turner, entrepreneur (Turner suffered bipolar disorder. He is known to have suffered bouts of depression throughout his adult life. He takes lithium pills as treatment.)

Brian Wilson, musician (Beach Boys), composer, arranger (It was variously reported that Wilson had either schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Some years later, during his second marriage, Wilson was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type which supposedly caused him to hear voices in his head. The effects of Brian Wilson's mental illness on his parenting skills were discussed by Wilson's daughter Wendy...)

Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist (Winters talked about his manic-depressive illness on The Tonight Show in 1994.)

Anthony Michael Hall, actor (The Canadian insurers of the television series The Dead Zone have sued star Anthony Michael Hall to recoup more than $612,000 for failure to disclose he suffers from manic depression Hall was treated for "bipolar affective disorder depression with psychotic features" for which the production company submitted a claim and received money.

Ozzy Osbourn, singer (Ozzy Osbourne was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after his divorce from his first wife Thelma in 1982. After the death of his father in 1977, he suffered from depression. Osbourne also underwent treatment for his alcoholism and drug abuse. )

Lili Taylor, actress (Lili has a family history of bipolar disorder (manic-depression) through her father. She received a diagnoses of bipolar disorder herself as a teen during her high-school years.

Marilyn Monroe, actor

Jane Pauley, journalist (Here is another celebrity who controls their disorder with lithium, and has no complaints about side effects. Her later in life diagnosis with bipolar disorder must have been shattering, but Jane Pauley handles it with graciousness.)

Robin Williams, actor, comedian

Axl Rose, musician (Heavy metal singer Axl Rose has been included on every list of celebrities with bipolar disorder for years. Rose himself has stated he was diagnosed manic-depressive.)

Robert Downey, Jr. (Robert's stepmother told People magazine that Robert had been diagnosed bipolar a few years earlier.... In the same article, psychiatrist Dr. Manijeh Nikakhtar said that after reviewing his previous psychiatric evaluations at his request, she asked him if he thought he was bipolar, and he said that he did.)

Richard Dreyfus (Academy award nominated actor Dreyfuss appeared in a documentary about living with bipolar disorder in 2006.)

Ted Turner, entrepreneur (Turner has acknowledged that he has Bipolar disorder . Dr. Frank Pittman diagnosed Turner as having bipolar disorder and put Turner on heavy doses of lithium to try to control the disease. After several months Turner's colleagues noted improvement in his behavior, although Turner never completely let go of some of his wild impulses.)

Burgess Meredity, actor (He published his autobiography, So Far, So Good, in 1994, and wrote in it that his mood swings were caused by cyclothymia, a form of bipolar disorder.)

Stephen Frye, actor (Fry had to wait until he was 37 before he was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a condition characterised by soaring highs and despairing lows. He went missing in Europe for a week then returned to London and spent months having psychological treatment in the US. In the BBC2 documentary, The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, he consults experts and fellow sufferers of bipolar disorder. He has also done documentaries on bipolarity.)

Sinead O’Connor (O’Conner was known to have suffered depression during her life. At the age of 37, she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She confirmed during an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show that she attempted suicide on her 33rd birthday. She said she had had suicide thoughts since she was 23.)

The above were dx’d bipolar by by verifiable source citations associating them with bipolar disorder, which can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_affected_by_bipolar_disord
er, as well as at http://www.famousbipolarpeople.com/ and other places (if anyone’s interested, I can give you numerous other URLs). Most are admitted and diagnosed and many are on medication. Some are pretty obvious when you think about them (laughably in some cases) and a few have been “diagnosed” from their histories and actions, and usually they self-medicated with alcohol or drugs (very common among bipolars).

One of the things I found interesting is that, in this one cross-section of famous bipolars, we can see examples of every different experiences. Some were diagnosed young, some in middle life. Some were misdiagnosed--several times in one case. Some accepted their diagnosis, some did not. Some feel very good about their medications (one hired to encourage others to take meds!), others either refused them or went the homeopathic way. Notice how many self-medicated with alcohol or drugs. Notice how many of them, and those from earlier times below, committed suicide. There's even one who was made manic by being given only antidepressants. A little cross-section of all of what constitutes mental illness.

Many famous people throughout history are believed to have been affected by mental disorders. Many people who might have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder today were, in the past, given the diagnosis of schizophrenia, melancholia, or even hysteria. In fact, the term 'bipolar disorder' wasn't even used very much until the 1980s. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings, "diagnosis" of the time (as above), hospitalizations and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Obviously nobody can know for sure, but they were very carefully investigated. The list is very long, and I've only begun accumulating supporting facts on these, but they're listed as bipolar in many places, so maybe I'll find them eventually.

Vincent Van Gogh (One article 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.")

Michaelangelo (He suffered from bipolar manic-depressive illness for most of his adult life and was known to binge drink for weeks at a time)

Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln was a severely depressed individual, which is well-documented by his writings and those of his friends and family. Like many who struggle with Bipolar Disorder, his depression was probably genetic and was also exacerbated by personal hardships. There are ongoing debates as to whether his wife was bipolar or depressive, as well.)

Ernest Hemmingway (Nobel Prize winner winning author Ernest Hemingway suffered from bipolar disorder. He was treated with electroshock therapy which the author said disrupted his memory. Hemingway committed suicide at the age of 61.)

Agatha Christie

Edgar Allan Poe

Winston Churchill (Some believe that Sir Winston's achievements were because of his bipolar - not in spite of it. Psychiatrist and historian Anthony Storr wrote: "Had he been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished." )

Hans Christian Anderson

Mark Twain

Virginia Wolf ("I married, and then my brains went up in a shower of fireworks. As an experience, madness is terrific … and not to be sniffed at, and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets as sanity does." Woolf had a psychiatric history and continued to suffer mood swings and breakdowns throughout her life. She committed suicide at the age of 59 by walking into the River Ouse with a large rock in her pocket - an androgynous modernist casualty of manic depressive psychosis.)

Mozart

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leo Tolstoy

Lewis Caroll (To understand Lewis Carroll the person you have to take into consideration that he suffered from some form of epilepsy, possibly frontal lobe seizures, and at the very least was bipolar. He also suffered from a condition which alters one’s perception of the size of objects. In Victorian times they had little understanding of mental health and he was simply labeled as mad.)

Mary Shelley

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Victor Hugo

Walt Whitman

T.S. Elliot

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Monday, February 7, 2011 3:32 PM

CANTTAKESKY

It's an interesting list, Niki. Thank you.

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Monday, February 7, 2011 3:44 PM

STORYMARK

Tim Burton - so crazy he made the list twice.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Monday, February 7, 2011 3:47 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER

Ditto.

I did not realize that so many of my favorite non-classical musicians were bipolar.

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Monday, February 7, 2011 4:21 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Oops, did I list Burton twice? I've had this list for ages and just add to it from now and again when I find something, so it wouldn't be surprising. Besides, he's nuts enough that it IS kind of appropriate, eh?

Happy, about as many as classical; the list of "historical" bipolars is tons longer, I've just started working on them.

What's amusing (to me) is that if you look at the names as you go down, most of them are so obvious...like Tim Burton, Vivien Leigh; people recognizable for their "nuttiness", their "out there" actions/thinking, temper tantrums, etc., etc. We live in the extremes, and it shows.

It makes me giggle, partly 'cuz my mom used to call me "Sarah Bernhart" because I was over-dramatic as a child. We ARE kind of known as drama queens, but it's partly because of how we FEEL things...as in more intensely. But how we might ACT is equally overly intense, so it's no surprise so many end up as actors or comedians. I wonder if the talent of painters, musicians, writers, etc., stems from that same intensity of feeling? I suppose that makes sense. It certainly gives weight to the frequently mentioned thing that bipolars are creative and talented. Wish I had some of that...my talents are small and unimportant, but then so is my bipolarity, as I'm only bipolar II, so maybe that fits, eh?

Glad a couple of you found it interesting.

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Monday, February 7, 2011 4:49 PM

DREAMTROVE

Some of these are posthumous and way predate the common use of bipolar diagnosis. I suspect some historical figures had much more serious mental illnesses. I've seen lists like this before, and I'm always dubious.

I prefer this:

Okay, I can't find the clip, where Mr. Platt says to Buffy "Anyone who claims to be completely sane is either lying, or not very bright."

Instead, I found this:

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Monday, February 7, 2011 5:25 PM

THEHAPPYTRADER

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Happy, about as many as classical; the list of "historical" bipolars is tons longer, I've just started working on them.

Oh I don't doubt it. I'm just a little more familiar with classical composers on account of the required music history classes

I've been referred to as 'nuts' but in a silly random sort of way. I'd joke I'm the most sane man there is 'cause I'm okay with my crazy. Incidentally, I have a large amount of female friends who suffer from some form of anxiety disorder. I know this because I spent most of the high school and college years in the 'friend box' before I discovered the trick to not being single, but that's unrelated. No longer on the hunt for companionship, having a lot of very close female friends is kinda nice, though sometimes awkward...

I've only known to people with bipolar though (also women), and I feel sorry for folks with that disorder. I mean no offense by this, but they can be a mite difficult to work with at times. 'Course one of them smokes pot semi-regularly and the other drinks like a fish, so I dunno how much of their behavior is bipolar or drugs/alcohol.

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Monday, February 7, 2011 10:08 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Stephen Fry made a documentary about it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808482/ Secret Life of the Manic Despressive.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:27 AM

HERO

Reading this thread made me very happy.

Sad now...

And you left Earth off of your list of bipolars...

H

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:43 AM

KANEMAN

OM GAWD!!! Another fucking mental health thread? Isn't that what your website is for. Really, You will bitch and moan if someone puts up a double evolution thread, but have no problem spamming this site with your kooky cali shit. You are a fucking mental midget....and a cunt. I hope you die old, poor, and still mentally challenged.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:45 AM

HERO

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Originally posted by kaneman:
OM GAWD!!! Another fucking mental health thread? Isn't that what your website is for. Really, You will bitch and moan if someone puts up a double evolution thread, but have no problem spamming this site with your kooky cali shit. You are a fucking mental midget....and a cunt. I hope you die old, poor, and still mentally challenged.

But other then that...I think he really likes you.

H

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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I suspect some historical figures had much more serious mental illnesses

Definitely possible. “Diagnosing” someone posthumously is something I don’t take for granted...for one thing, unipolarity is sometimes mistaken for bipolarity when there’s been an incident or two, but when it comes to people like Lincoln, I think the diagnosis should more properly be unipolar (depressive), for example. I don’t think too many who are labeled bipolar were something besides unipolar, tho’, given the talent thing and that schizophrenics would have a MUCH harder time functioning at all. We’ll certainly never know. Many talented people throughout history weren’t helped because they were just viewed as “eccentric”.

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they can be a mite difficult to work with at times.

That made me smile. Boy, you got THAT right! Right up until the time I crashed and was dx’d (and after that, several tries to work again failed), I got the highest marks of anyone for my work, but there were always the low marks for “gets along with others” in the “needs to work on” part. I actually found out at one place that some of my co-workers were AFRAID of me, which shocked me. Verbally I wasn’t abusive, but my “intensity” made them nervous. What you said is very, very common...one of the reasons the best occupation for a bipolar is something with flexible hours or working for themselves; “stress is our worst enemy” and the corporate life brings out the worst in us; if I wasn’t bipolar, I think I could have gone on working (which I LOVED!) the rest of my life.

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No longer on the hunt for companionship

That’s something that is again, common among bipolars. We have one on the site I run who has been looking for someone for the whole time I’ve known him (over a decade)...someone to “fill his life”. We long ago gave up trying to help him understand that you have to have a fulfilled life to FIND someone, you can’t make that your focus; one of our members even moved to Greece when they thought they were in love; it was a disaster. Now he’s suicidal, having given up, and has tried several times. We’re too far away to help him, and it devastates us we can’t. We HAVE managed to get people help here in the states, when we know enough about them to contact family or something.

Yeah, Magons, I saw Fry’s documentary. He’s also worked with NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) and DBSA (Depression and Bipolar Society of America—-the people I ran that support group through), doing videos and stuff. I’ve always loved Stephen Fry, it was actually a shock to me to find out he was bipolar; unlike many others, it doesn’t show in his work (i.e., Jonathan Winters, Robin Williams-—the more “out there” types).

Hero:

good one. I’m used to it; I mostly ignore him. My answer to this one is that whenever I get the opportunity to educate people on mental illness, I take it. We still battle enormous stigma, and the more people understand, the less stigma. One reason I’m quite open about my own bipolarity; nobody can hurt me, hurling it back at me or being prejudiced against me, but each person who might listen and learn will help us all. And, as can be seen, it’s been interesting enough for people to respond; Kane’s one sick puppy, his opinion means nothing. He’s not even interesting enough to BE mentally ill (unlike PN), he’s such an asshole.

Besides, I put up exactly ONE thread about the DSM-5; it wasn't until I came back a couple of days later and saw there were other threads on the subject that I put up the "Famous Bipolars" thread, and only that. Others put up the other threads on mental illness, so he's a double asshole for blaming me.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:13 AM

THEHAPPYTRADER

Personally, I rather enjoy exploring areas like this to another democrat vs republican dick measuring contest. After all, neither those have any balls.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:55 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Well said, Happy. Me, too; in fact, just about ANY topic that isn't R v. D. People are too ideologically set, and that makes for stupidity, so discussing either party is an exercise in prejudice, politispeak and stupidity most of the time.

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011 6:37 PM

TWO

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

Bipolar Disorder Prevalence - www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1BIPOLAR_ADULT.shtml

• 12-month Prevalence: 2.6% of U.S. adult population
• Lifetime Prevalence: 3.9%
• Severe: 82.9% of these cases (e.g., 2.2% of U.S. adult population) are classified as “severe”
• Demographics by Age: 18-29 5.9%; 30-44 4.5%; 45-59 3.5%; 60+ 1%

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, February 11, 2011 12:43 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Yup, Two. NIMH is the National Institute for Mental Health, if anyone doesn't know. It's the second biggest group next to "DBSA" (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, it was called something else back when I ran one of their support groups). NIMH is the "biggie", since it covers all mental illnesses.

Interesting I'm in the 1% cagetory...I've read that bipolarity can decrease/disappear in older age. Or else people of my age don't get diagnosed in their lifetime.

I find that 82% figure strange; maybe a lot of us Bipolar IIs never get diagnosed...or the cyclothymicss, come to think of it, they're even milder. Hmmm.

Thanx for the info!

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