Brilliant people who suffer from mental illness

Unfortunately, "from love to hate only a step" and "from the genius to madness" ... Read more about brilliant people suffering from mental disorders.

Clinical depression has long suffered from the creator of the Harry Potter books by JK Rowling. As she admitted herself a writer - writing books about the young wizard became for her a kind of therapy. It is due to depressive disorders writer came up with the Dementors, who "pulled" from the joy of man.





Fear of being buried alive, or the fear of being buried alive was suffering not only known to all of us Nikolai Gogol. Panic was afraid that he will be buried alive, the founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel. By the way, the father of Nobel was the inventor of the so-called "safe coffin," as also suffered from fear of being buried alive. Being buried alive feared Marina Tsvetaeva, Arthur Schopenhauer, Wilkie Collins.



Depression also suffered Abraham Lincoln, historians argue that the US president is often sobbed into my pillow, and even attempted suicide.



Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh said bipolar disorder is made by Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear. Status artist aggravated epilepsy and hallucinations, associated with the constant use of absinthe. The same pathology was Ludwig van Beethoven (composer generally differ strange quirks). In the composer's suffering from bipolar disorder state of creative enthusiasm and tidal energy are replaced by complete apathy. To switch to the point of apathy and force yourself to write music again, Beethoven dipped his head into a bowl of ice water.



Some biographers believe Mikhail Lermontov, the poet suffered from schizophrenia. Mental disorder poet probably inherited through the maternal line, his grandfather with poison took his own life, his mother suffered from neurosis and hysteria. Contemporaries noted that Lermontov was very angry and unsociable man, even in his appearance could read something sinister. According to Peter Vyazemsky, Lermontov was extremely nervous, his mood changed abruptly and polar. Cheerful and good-natured poet in a moment could become angry and sullen. "And at such moments he had been unsafe».



A prototype of the main character oskoronosnogo film "A Beautiful Mind," the mathematician John Nash lifelong paranoid. We genius often happens hallucinations, he constantly heard voices and seen foreign non-existent people. The wife of Nobel Prize winner in every way tried to help her husband to hide the symptoms of the disease, because under US law at the time it could be forced to treat. What eventually happened, but the math eluded doctors. He learned to mask the symptoms of the disease with such skill that psychiatrists believe in his healing. I must say that Nash's wife Lucia in the later years, too, was diagnosed with paranoid disorder.