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Historical figures with BP

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I would like some help in listing some historical figures that have suffered from BP. I really need some studies on the subject as well. If you know of any website or book that would have this information I would appreciate that as well.

(Disclaimer: this like all of my posts is not a Christian or Non-Christian topic. As with all of my posts all are welcome and encouraged to reply.)
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http://www.mentaljokes.com/famous_manic.html
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Is this a Moslem post ?

Joke.
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There's a book by Kay Jamison called Touched With Fire
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Oliver Cromwell Leader James Boswell Biographer of Boswell Blake the great poet
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I'm sure most great artists of any kind probably were bi-polar. Look at Van Gogh, "I think I'll just lop off my ear and send it to my girlfriend..." Definitely something going on there. I just wonder how people 100 years ago dealt with the disease. Of course, opium and cocaine were legal then...
arlene17
arlene17
After learning about Rembrandt last semester I believe he had bp traits.
computerbob1
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Yes, Van Goph is on the list. Maybe he was the first undiagnosed cutter on record :)

mrtim, I have some helps in a journal on my profile. Check them out sometime.
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Van Gogh had an ear for Art.
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Dr. John Gartner's "The Hypomanic Edge" - proposes Alexander Hamilton, Christopher Columbus, and other historical figures. (Haven't read it myself.)
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Abraham Lincoln was bipolar.
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write Virginia Wolfe had BP. I did a research paper on her my senior year.
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Kay Redfield Jamison's book The Fire Within goes into many artists/writers who had depression or manic-depression. Great read! As far as I can remember, Van Gogh, Churchill, Lincoln, Virginia Woolfe, Alexander the Great are some
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I read some articles (Mayo Clinic etc) & it is probable that van Gogh had aural hallucinations & cut his ear off during a seizure, in order to stop the sounds. B4 medication, the combination of seizures & BP/OCD would cause me to do odd things, like take stacks of papers off desks & sit on the floor, sifting through them without realizing what I was doing. I'd "wake up" with stacks of files all around me.
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