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Richard Dreyfus on Bipolar Disorder: “I’m in Love With My Romantic Inner Life.”

By Christine Stapleton

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“Richard Dreyfus on Bipolar Disorder: “I’m in Love With My Romantic Inner Life.””

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1. Wendy Love 4:19 pm on February 28th, 2013

   Thanks for sharing this story. So important! You are so right. Mania is bad! Always bad!
   I would like to ask Dreyfus what followed mania. Depression always follows my mania, that depression cancelling any good that I might have imagined I was experiencing during mania. It is just not worth it.

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2. GS 10:40 pm on February 28th, 2013

   Listed below are a select few names from a list that Wikipedia claims are bipolar. (BTW they listed Mr. Dreyfuss -I see why Christine found it strange that Richard didn’t mention this). I wonder if Richard read this Wiki page.

   “This is a list of people, living or dead, accompanied by verifiable source citations associating them with bipolar disorder (formerly known as “manic depression”), either based on their own public statements, or (in the case of dead people only) reported contemporary or posthumous diagnoses of bipolar disorder.”

   Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincent Van Gogh, Isaac Newton, Florence Nightingale, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Brian Wilson, Ray Davies
   Frank Sinatra, Ted Turner, Richard Dreyfuss

   Source – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_bipolar_disorder

   Should this be the case, would we have even heard of Beethoven? Van Gogh? Florence Nightingale? et al, if meds were available during those times?

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