Bipolar Geniuses: Carrie Fisher
She played Priness Leia – one of the most iconic heroes in Hollywood history. But off screen, Carrie Fisher has battled bipolar and addiction for decades.
Bipolar Geniuses: Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)
Over time, Van Gogh was hospitalized at least five times for manic-depressive breakdowns. Friends and various artists described him as eccentric, disturbed, terrifying, on the verge of a breakdown, extremely difficult, obstinate and as a heavy drinker.
Bipolar Geniuses: Amy Winehouse
Alcohol. Heroin. Cocaine. Crack Cocaine. Ecstasy. Ketamine. All of Amy Winehouse’s drugs of choice. They rendered her Lithium treatment for bipolar useless.
Bipolar Geniuses: Robin Williams
Williams confided to Carrie Fisher about his moods. While he didn’t believe he was bipolar, he answered yes to the five “Are You Bipolar?” questions Fisher posed at her one-woman show.
Bipolar Geniuses: Edgar Allan Poe
“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. During these fits of absolute unconsciousness, I drank – God only knows how often or how much. As a matter of course, my enemies referred the insanity to the drink, rather than the drink to the insanity.”
– Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”
