... poets, show unusually high rates of bipolar disorder and 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 ... ...

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... are Vincent van Gogh, Sylvia Plath (author of The Bell Jar) and 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 ... ...

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... the population suffers from some form of bipolar disorder. Some of the more recognizable names of individuals marked by bipolar disorder throughout history were Winston Churchill, George Frederick Handel, Lord Byron, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allen Poe, Napoleon Bonaparte and Vincent Van Gogh. I chose bipolar disorder because I wanted to discover and learn more about this terrible disorder. Bipolar disorder is considered to ... ...

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