Looking for a list of people who were/are bi-polar and successful or famous to use as a role model example?

Question

I am looking for a list of names of people who are bi-polar who were successful achievers beside having this illness. Perhaps people who considered it a plus factor in their achievements.

Answer 1

george frederick handel, oscar levant, theodore rooselvelt, john adams, lyndon johnson
virginia woolf, sting, jean claude van damme, axl rose, carrie fisher, ben stiller, vivien leigh, patty duke, buzz aldrin, hans christian andersen, napolean bonaparte, mozart, jack london, isaac newton, JC Penney, brian wilson, van gogh, sigmund freud, tennyson, robert frost, robert e lee, ts eliot, jim carrey, drew carey, edgar allen poe,

the list goes on and on,

the key is to try to be slightly hypomanic...
and you are almost superhuman in comparison to everyone else. thats is where the whole creativity / madness paradigm comes from.

many people that are hypomanic do some of the most fanastic and ingenious things. its when things go really manic or when things crash is when things are bad.

Answer 2

I don't know of any off hand, but try running a search for "bipolar celebrities" and "famous bipolar people" and see what you come up with.

Answer 3

ask the confidentiality board !!!