Does being a genius cause madness?
These celebrities opened up about their bipolar diagnosis:
Lilly Allen
Maria Bamford
Roseanne Barr
Luke Bell
Maria Bello
Isabella Blow
Russell Brand
Chris Brown
Amanda Bynes
Mariah Carey
Aaron Carter
Jack Cassidy
Keisha Castle-Hughes
Rosemary Clooney
Francis Ford Coppola
Richard Dreyfuss
Patty Duke
Frances Farmer
Carrie Fisher
Larry Flynt
Connie Francis
Stephen Fry
Kaye Gibbons
Mel Gibson
Selena Gomez
Graham Greene
Halsey
Linda Hamilton
Darrell Hammond
David Harbour
Abbie Hoffman
Catherine Zeta Jones
Margot Kidder
Vivian Leigh
Demi Lovato
Robert Lowell
Burgess Meredith
Billy Miller
Robert Munsch
Kim Novak
Sinead O'Connor
Phil Ochs
Nicola Pagett
Jane Pauly
Chappell Roan
Renee Russo
Ann Sexton
Charlie Sheen
Sidney Shelton
Nina Simone
Phil Spector
Dusty Springfield
Peter Steele
Sting
Gene Tierney
Andrew Toles
Ike Turner
Ted Turner
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Ayelet Waldman
Pete Wentz
Kanye "Ye" West
Brian Wilson
Amy Winehouse
Jonathan Winters
Virginia Woolf
These celebrities never announced that they were officially diagnosed but probably were bipolar due to their behaviors:
Tallulah Bankhead
Clara Bow
Marlon Brando
Louise Brooks
Johnny Carson
Joan Crawford
Kurt Cobain
Greta Garbo
Gloria Grahame
Carey Grant
Zane Grey
Ernest Hemingway
Jimi Hendrix
Stanley Kubrick
Veronica Lake
Carole Landis
Jerry Lewis
Marie McDonald
Ezra Miller
Jennifer O'Neill
Nicholas Ray
Frank Sinatra
Peter Sellers
Vincent Van Gogh
Lupe Velez
Robin Williams
Bipolar is a serious mental disease. If you or someone you know is suffering from bipolar, depression or have suicidal thoughts please seek medical help from some of the following programs:
The International Bipolar Foundation
NAMI: the National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Suicide Prevention Resource Center. SPCR.org
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: AFSP.org
