Famous Depressives

Have you noticed how some people who suffer from depression are unusually creative? It is like an imbalance of one kind adds to another side of a person. It's a known fact that many famous people suffered from depression and that the reason these people are considered famous is because of the creative aspects of their lives. This can include composers, writers, artists and even politicians. Many politicians have had to be creative to conquer the problems of their eras. A good politician is able to do this. A mediocre one has solutions but they are things that anyone could come up with, and often do, not creative solutions that solve the problem because they deal with it differently.

Some politicians known to have suffered with depression include Winston Churchill; England's World War Two savior. Several presidents of the United States have dealt with depression including Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and, not surprisingly, Richard Nixon. The late and much loved Princess Diana of Great Britain is known to have fought depression as was Queen Elizabeth the first and Queen Victoria, who went into a several year depressive episode following the death of her husband Albert. Included in this list also are the Emperor Napoleon, Boris Yeltsin and Canadian Prime Minister William Pitt. Some of the great minds of our time like physicist Stephen Hawking, inventor of the television Philo T. Farnsworth and highly successful inventors Thomas Edison, Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin all are depressives as is Bill Wilson founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous program.

The number of talented actresses and actors is a very long one. When watching them in the movies or theaters would you have suspected that Patty Duke, Harrison Ford, John Cleese, Drew Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Audrey Hepburn, James Garner, or Judy Garland have fought this mental illness? As has Jim Carey, Winona Ryder, Rod Steiger, Vivian Leigh, Marilyn Monroe and Margot Kidder who has had rather public troubles with her depression. Musicians Ozzie Osborne, Billy Joel, Elton John, Alanis Morissette, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon along with composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin and Cole Porter are all depressives. So are authors Mary Shelly, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens as well as artists Michelangelo and Vincent van Gogh.

Would you have guessed that Peanuts creator Charles Schultz, astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, designer Yves Saint Laurent or prima ballerina Karen Kain shared this problem? But you may not be surprised to know that billionaire Howard Hughes and writer Ernest Hemmingway both suffered from depression. This is but a small portion of the talented people who suffer from the daily struggles of depression. They are intelligent and talented people, many of who have made a difference in their lives and the lives of those around them. Never feel like you are the only one who must deal with depression or that being a depressive makes puts you in a category of undesirables. It seems that it is a pretty impressive group that shares this condition with you.

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