A celebrity with mental disorders?

Question

I am supposed to write a case study report on a celebrity with mental disorders, I can't do someone like Michael Jackson, because he has so many things wrong with him. It will be better if that person has one clear mental disorder and must be famous enough that they have some journal articles written about their disorders. Thanks

Answer 1

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21256.asp
http://bipolar.about.com/od/celebrities/Celebrities_with_Bipolar_Disorder.htm

Answer 2

Although she was quite thin, Audrey Hepburn, did not have an eating disorder. I remember reading that during the war she was malnourished as a child and went hungry for many years. As a result she was unable to put on weight. She loved to eat and had a large appetite with a love for pasta. Please do not quote me, but I believe this information came from her son.

Answer 3

Margot Kidder - the lady who played Lois Lane in Superman (when C. Reeve was Superman) had a major meltdown of some sort. There's plenty of articles about her problems.

Answer 4

Here is a great article on a bunch of celebrities with major depression:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=36089
Here is a link to celebrities with eating disorders:
http://www.ediets.com/news/article.cfm?cmi=454367&code=26001
This is a great link with a bunch of celebs that have obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD):
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/newspol/celeb/cfeat/articles/0,,528719_685869,00.html
A really great article with a diverse group of celebs with all different kinds of disorders. This might be the best article of them all:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21256.asp

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

The women that played opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I can't remember her name or the name of the movie....he was a Robot.

She was on Oprah for being such a mental case...Linda I think was her first name.

Answer 6

there is not any illness for this different than possibly a splash obsessive over sought after human beings. you won't be able to love somebody whom you have under no circumstances met or perhaps talked with. She is crushing on them which distracts her from her very own life and themes she would have. reckoning on her age this is quite generic for a preteen or youthful teenager. she would be waiting to out enhance it quicker or later. haven't any concerns and merely attempt to ignore approximately it by ability of residing your life.

Answer 7

Angelina Jolie used to cut herself. I'll bet you can find something wrong with her somewhere. Check out her interview on 'In the Actors Studio'. It's very revealing.

Answer 8

Celebrities and Disorders


Celebrities… normal people with a fantastical life. Something many wish they had and yet it seems unattainable. Their lives seem adventurous, romantic, exciting. But they are people just like us. After receiving a question posed about celebrities known with a certain disorder ~ I did some research. Here’s what I found.

CELEBRITIES WITH EATING DISORDERS: Past or Present (openly proclaimed – information here will only contain information stated directly from the individual)

Paula Abdul, Jane Fonda, Ashlee Simpson, Mary-Kate Olsen, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Christina Ricci, Felicity Huffman, Kelly Clarkson, Janice Dickinson, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Scarlett Pomers, Princess Diana, Melanie Chisholm, Sally Field, Calista Flockhart, Carrie Otis, Alexandra Paul, Elisa Donovan, Alanis Morrisette, Sharon Osbourne, Fiona Apple, Audrey Hepburn, Kate Winslet, Kate Beckinsale, Sylvia Plath, Kelly Ripa, Ally Sheedy, Patty Duke, Tracey Gold, Sandra Dee, Susan Dey, Elton John, Billy Bob Thornton, Matthew Perry, Dennis Quaid, Alfred Hitchcock, Richey James, John Lennon, Adam Rickitt (to name a few)

CELEBRITIES WITH OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: Past or Present

David Beckham, Paul Gascoigne, Woody Allen, Harrison Ford, Emily Lloyd, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Charles Dickens, Marcel Proust

CELEBRITIES WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER: Past or Present

Buzz Aldrin, Ned Beatty, Bobby Brown, Mark Vonnegut, Robert Evans, Stephen Fry, Francis Ford Coppola, Patricia Cornwell, Maurice Benard, Jack Irons, Patty Duke, Linda Hamilton, Jonathan Winters, Darryl Strawberry, Nick Traina, Sylvia Plath, Tim Burton, Rosemary Clooney, Ray Davies, Lynn Rivers, Kitty Dukakis, Spike Milligan, Carrie Fisher, Norman Wexler, Virginia Woolf, Ted Turner, Jean-Claude Van Damme (to name a few)

CELEBRITIES WITH DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS: Past or Present

Sigmund Freud, Marilyn Monroe, Greg Louganis, Alanis Morrisette, Abraham Lincoln, Leo Tolstoy, Roseanne, Georgia O’Keefe, Tipper Gore, Lorraine Bracco, George Stephanopolous, Delta Burke, Dolly Parton, Edgar Allan Poe, Uma Thurman, Ashley Judd, Winona Rider

CELEBRITIES WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: Past or Present

John Nash, Lionel Aldridge

CELEBRITIES WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM ANXIETY
Johnny Depp, Courtney Love, Sally Field, Oprah Winfrey, Marie Osmond and brother Donny, Barbra Streisand, Isaac Asimov, W.B. Yeats, John Steinbeck, Charlotte Bronte, Cher, Naomi Judd, Aretha Franklin, Sheryl Crow, Carly Simon, Ray Charles, Sissy Spacek, Burt Reynolds, John Candy, Anthony Hopkins, Dick Clark, Nicole Kidman, Kim Basinger, Earl Campbell, Joan Rivers, Howie Mandel, Charles Schultz, Sigmund Freud, Sir Isaac Newton

Celebrities are not immune to these disorders and many of them have authored books, been involved in propaganda promoting mental health treatment and have interviews available to read. Check them out. Perhaps their stories will help YOU.

Answer 9

My favorite is the incomparable Wesley Willis!
(schitzo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Willis

Or you could go with Syd Barrett...

but here are some more mainstream:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21256.asp

Answer 10

How about Howard Hughes? -The Aviator-