MCactiveminds

Not Just You

Sometimes you may think it is only you who suffers from a Mental Illness - not so!

There are many celebrities and other public figures who have been candid about their experiences with mental illness.

Clinical Depression
Janet Jackson
Gwenyth Paltrow
Hugh Laurie
Elton John
Pete Wentz
Anthony Hopkins

Bipolar Disorder
Robin Williams
Jean-Claude van Damme

Eating Disorders
Sally Field
Billy Bob Thornton
Tracey Gold
Meredith Vieira

Anxiety Disorders
Heather Locklear
Leonardo DiCaprio
Cameron Diaz
Howard Stern

Attempted Suicide

Halle Berry
Drew Berrymore
Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Prior
Rick Williams

Self Injury
Johnny Depp
Angelina Jolie
Christina Ricci
Fiona Apple
Shirley Manson

Historical Figures Who Suffered
Abraham Lincoln - depression
Princess Diana - bulimia nervosa, borderline personality disorder, and self injury
Leo Tolstoy - depression
Theodore Roosevelt - bipolar disorder
Winston Churchill - bipolar disorder
Edgar Allen Poe - bipolar disorder
Ludwig von Beethoven - bipolar disorder

Those lost to Suicide
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
Marilyn Monroe
Sylvia Plath
Virginia Woolf
Ernest Hemingway
Sigmund Freud
Vincent van Gogh