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4 unusual facts about bipolar disorder


Drewe Henley

The performance was Henley's final one on film, as he was diagnosed with manic depression shortly after completing his part and he retired from acting.

I Go to Extremes

The St. Paul Pioneer Press believes that the song chronicles the highs and lows of a "manic-depressive".

In the Best Interest of the Children

In the Best Interest of the Children is a fact-based TV film starring Sarah Jessica Parker who plays a woman struggling with manic-depression while raising her five children.

Jennifer Damiano

She remained in the cast until December 2007, when she began rehearsals for the role of Natalie, the angsty teenage daughter of a woman with manic-depression in the musical "Next To Normal".


Brian Douglas Wells

On July 29, 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Sean J. McLaughlin made an initial finding that Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong was mentally incompetent to stand trial for the bombing due to bipolar disorder, indicating that this ruling would be reviewed after Diehl-Armstrong had received a period of treatment in a mental hospital.

Charles Rappolt

After his recovery he sought A$295 000 in damages from the Queensland government, arguing that his stint in Parliament had left him a psychotic manic depressive.

Explosive child

The child identified as being an explosive child can be also classified as bipolar or diagnosed as having Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Intermittent explosive disorder, Tourette syndrome, Asperger's syndrome or obsessive compulsive disorder.

Gordon Parker

He is the Founder of the Black Dog Institute, an organization based at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, New South Wales, that focuses on the treatment of mood disorders, in particular clinical depression and bipolar disorder.

John Cade

Dr John Frederick Joseph Cade AO (18 January 1912 – 16 November 1980) was an Australian psychiatrist credited with discovering (in 1948) the effects of lithium carbonate as a mood stabilizer in the treatment of bipolar disorder (then known as manic depression).

Lyn Yvonne Abramson

As a clinical psychologist, her main areas of research interest have been exploring vulnerability to major depressive disorder and psychobiological and cognitive approaches to depression, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders.

My Mood Monitor Screen

The 27-question screener assesses an individual’s risk of suffering from depression, anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and bipolar disorder.

Norman Wexler

He was reported to have suffered from severe mental illness, reportedly bipolar disorder, and was arrested in 1972 for threatening to shoot President Richard Nixon.

Robert S. Corrington

Corrington has had bouts with bipolar disorder (manic-depressive), and he gives a personal account of this in his 2003 book Riding the Windhorse: Manic Depressive Disorder and the Quest for Wholeness, which contains case studies of Sri Ramakrishna and Sir Isaac Newton as well as his intellectual biography "My Passage from Panentheism to Pantheism."


see also

Abby Lockhart

Their relationship is badly strained when Carter's grandmother (Frances Sternhagen) dies, and Abby's brother, Eric, conclusively diagnosed with bipolar disorder, acts out at the funeral and falls into the grave.

Bipolar disorder research

Further research from the Section of Section of Neurobiology of Psychosis, at the Institute of Psychiatry Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London has highlighted the role of key susceptibility genes for brain structure and function in Bipolar Disorder patients and their relatives.

Daemen College

The school will offer a two-year program for students with neurobiological disorders such as high functioning autism, Tourette syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and bipolar disorder.

E. Fuller Torrey

In the early 1970s, Torrey became interested in viral infections as possible causes of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, particularly a parasite Toxoplasma gondii whose definitive host is the cat, but whose intermediate host can be any mammal, including humans.

Gordon Parker

Gordon Parker is Scientia Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales, specializing in clinical research in mental health in particular depression & bipolar disorder.

Mood disorder

Kay Redfield Jamison and others have explored the possible links between mood disorders — especially bipolar disorder — and creativity.