... that period of mania fuel their creativity. Famous artists and writers who might have suffered from bipolar disorder include poets Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, and novelists Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway. There are many symptoms that may signify if a person is bipolar, but many are over-looked because they are seen as normally occurring human behavior. The two main types of ... ...

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... Mozart. Many other creative artists were either hospitalized or attempted suicide. Among these are Edgar Allen Poe, Lord Byron, TS Elliot, Mark Twain, Noel Coward, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. Among great statesmen, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are also known to have suffered from depression. Some of the other well-known confirmed manic depressives ... ...

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