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Famous
People with Depressive Disorders
KEY:
H = Asylum or
psychiatric hospital
S = Suicide
SA = Suicide attempt
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| Writers |
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- Hans
Christian Andersen
- Honore
de Balzac
- James
Barrie
- Arthur
Benson (H)
- E.F.
Benson
- James
Boswell
- William
Faulkner (H)
- F.
Scott Fitzgerald (H)
- Lewis
Grassic Gibbon (SA)
- Charlotte
Perkins Gilman (H, S)
- Nikolai
Gogl
- Maxim
Gorky (SA)
- Kenneth
Graham
- Graham
Greene
- Ernest
Hemingway (H, S)
- Henrik
Ibsen
- William
Inge (H, S)
- Henry
James
- William
James
- Charles
Lamb (H)
- Malcolm
Lowry (H, S)
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- John
Bunyan
- Samuel
Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Joseph
Conrad (SA)
- Charles
Dickens
- Isak
Dinesen (SA)
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
- Herman
Melville
- Eugene
O'Neill (H, SA)
- Francis
Parkman
- John
Ruskin (H)
- Mary
Shelley
- Jean
Stafford (H)
- Robert
Louis Stevenson
- August
Strindberg
- Leo
Tolstoy
- Ivan
Turgenev
- Tennessee
Williams (H)
- Mary
Wollstonecraft (SA)
- Virginia
Woolf (H, S)
- Emile
Zola
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| Composers |
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- Anton
Arensky
- Hector
Berlioz (SA)
- Anton
Bruckner (H)
- Jeremiah
Clarke (S)
- John
Dowland
- Edward
Elgar
- Carlo
Gesualdo
- Mikhail
Glinka
- George
Frederic Handel
- Gustav
Holst
- Charles
Ives
- Otto
Klemperer (H)
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- Orlando
de Lassus
- Gustav
Mahler
- Modest
Mussorgsky
- Sergey
Rachmaninoff
- Giocchino
Rossini
- Robert
Schumann (H, SA)
- Alexander
Scriagbin
- Peter
Tchaikovsky
- Peter
Warlock (S)
- Hugo
Wolf (H, SA)
- Bernd
Alois Zimmerman (S)
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| Nonclassical
Music |
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- Irving
Berlin (H)
- Noel
Coward
- Stephen
Foster
- Charles
Parker (H, SA)
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- Cole
Porter (H)
- Charles
Mingus (H)
- Bud
Powell (H)
- Kurt
Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (S 1994)
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| Poets |
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- Antonin
Artaud (H)
- Konstantin
Batyushkov (H, SA)
- Charles
Baudelaire (SA)
- Thomas
Lovell Beddoes (S)
- John
Berryman (H, S)
- William
Blake
- Aleksandr
Blok
- Barcroft
Boake (S)
- Louis
Bogan (H)
- Rupert
Brooke
- Robert
Burns
- George
Gordon, Lord Byron
- Thomas
Campbell
- Paul
Celan (S)
- Thomas
Chatterton (S)
- John
Clare (H)
- Harley
Coleridge
- Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
- William
Collins (H)
- William
Cowper (H, SA)
- Hart
Crane (S)
- George
Darley
- John
Davidson (S)
- Emily
Dickinson
- Ernest
Dowson
- T.S.
Eliot (H)
- Afanasy
Fet (SA)
- Anne
Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
- Edward
FitzGerald
- John
Gould Fletcher (S)
- Gustaf
Froding (SA, H)
- Oliver
Goldsmith
- Adam
Lindsay Gordon (S)
- Thomas
Gray
- Nikolai
Gumilyov (SA)
- Robert
Stephen Hawker
- Friedrich
Holderlin (H)
- Gerard
Manley Hopkins
- Victor
Hugo
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- Samuel
Johnson
- John
Keats
- Henry
Kendall (H)
- Velimir
Khlebnikov (H)
- Heinrich
Von Kleist (S)
- Walter
Savage Landor
- Nikolaus
Lenau (H)
- J.M.R.
Lenz (SA)
- Mikhail
Lermontov
- Vachel
Lindsay (S)
- James
Russell Lowell
- Robert
Lowell (H)
- Hugh
MacDiarmid (H)
- Osip
Mandelstam (H, SA)
- Louis
MacNeice
- James
Clarence Mangan
- Alfred
de Musset
- Gerard
de Nerval (H, S)
- Boris
Pasternak (H)
- Cesare
Pavese (S)
- Sylvia
Plath (H, S)
- Edgar
Allan Poe (SA)
- Ezra
Pound (H)
- Alexander
Pushkin
- Laura
Riding (SA)
- Theodore
Roethke (H)
- Delmore
Schwartz (H)
- Anne
Sexton (H, S)
- Percy
Bysshe Shelley (SA)
- Christopher
Smart (H)
- Torquato
Tasso (H)
- Sara
Teasdale (H, S)
- Alfred,
Lord Tennyson
- Dylan
Thomas
- Edward
Thomas
- Francis
Thompson
- George
Trakl (H, S)
- Marina
Tsvetayeva (S)
- Walt
Whitman
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| Artists |
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- Ralph
Barton (S)
- Francesco
Bassano (S)
- Ralph
Blakelock (H)
- David
Bomberg
- Francesco
Borromini (S)
- John
Sell Cotman
- Richard
Dadd (H)
- Edward
Dayes (S)
- Thomas
Eakins
- Paul
Gauguin (SA)
- Theodore
Gericault
- Hugo
van der Goes
- Vincent
van Gogh (H, S)
- Arshile
Gorky (S)
- Philip
Guston (H)
- Benjamin
Haydon (S)
- Carl
Hill (H)
- Ernst
Josephson (H)
- George
Innes (SA)
- Ernst
Ludwig Kirchner (H, S)
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- Edwin
Landseer (H)
- Edward
Lear
- Wilhelm
Lehmbruck (S)
- John
Martin
- Charles
Meryon (H)
- Michelangelo
- Adolphe
Monticelli
- Edvard
Meunch (H)
- Jules
Pascin (S)
- Georgia
O'Keeffe (H)
- Raphaelle
Peal (H)
- Jackson
Pollock (H)
- George
Romney
- Dante
Gabriel Rossetti (SA)
- Mark
Rothko (S)
- Nicolas
de Stael (S)
- Pietro
Testa (S)
- Henry
Tilson (S)
- George
Frederic Watts
- Anders
Zorn
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This list is taken from Kay Jamison's Touched
With Fire; Manic-Depressive Ilness and the Artistic Temperament
In Appendix B: Writers, Artists, and Composers with Probable
Cyclothymia, Major Depression, or Manic-Depressive Illness. "This is
meant to be an illustrative rather than a comprehensive list; for
systematic studies, see text. Most of the writers, composers, and
artists are American, British, European, Irish, or Russian; all are
deceased . . . Many if not most of these writers, artists, and
composers had other major problems as well, such as medical illnesses,
alcoholism or drug addiction, or exceptionally difficult life
circumstances. They are listed here as having suffered from a mood
disorder because their mood symptoms redated their other conditions,
because the nature and course of their mood and behavior symptoms were
consistent with a diagnosis of an independently existing
affective illness, and/or because their family histories of depression,
manic-depressive illness, and suicide--coupled with their own
symptoms--were sufficiently strong to warrant their
inclusion." |
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