There’s no longer a stigma about coming out as having bipolar disorder. It is becoming more commonplace to openly discuss mood disorders, as evidenced by the number of celebrities who’ve publicly disclosed their diagnoses. Bebe Rexha is the latest to come out.
With his trademark sky-blue Fender Mustang guitar and godforsaken, angst-ridden scream of a voice, Kurt Cobain mobilized a generation of freaks and geeks in the early ‘90s, knocking Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard charts and chaperoning the mainstream into a new age of enlightenment fueled by punk and alternative rock. For Generation…
After a psychotic episode in 2015, rocker Scott Stapp received a bipolar diagnosis. At the top of his game, Stapp was the leader of Creed, a popular hard-rock band in the late ‘90s that sold 10 million records. The rocker returns with a new single.
Superman’s love interest was bipolar in real life. Margot Kidder — who played Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane in the Superman film series of the ‘70s and ‘80s — died in May at the age of 69. Her death has now been ruled a suicide.
Demi Lovato is a bipolar pop star with four top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The embattled bipolar addict was hospitalized after a relapse on opioids.
You don’t even deserve to be bipolar. But if you are, you’re a buffoon. You are a total faux-artist provocateur — not in a good way — and an egomaniacal rapper who’s now only in it for the fame and fortune.
Mariah Carey is now the most high-profile person living with bipolar disorder. She’s a beautiful woman even at 48, a superstar with pipes of gold and a voice that could outshine an opera singer. And now, she joins the ranks of fellow pop-culture icons like Carrie Fisher, Marilyn Monroe, and Amy Winehouse in what I’ll call the bipolar diva club.
Demi Lovato doesn’t flinch. She speaks her mind and is more articulate than most pop stars. Ask her about her bipolar disorder, addiction, or self-harming and she explains the tiniest of details.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1726) was a British mad scientist with bipolar disorder and a torrent of discoveries in the world of science, mathematics, and physics, from laws to theories to facts.
It’s one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in rock history and it was written by a bipolar musical genius from London. “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks is only two chords, but just try to get it out of your head once you’ve heard it.
