Carrie Fisher’s cause of death was officially confirmed as sleep apnea, with other factors, including heart disease and drug abuse. Drug abuse can intensify symptoms of sleep apnea and even prove to be fatal when the two are combined.
Moody to be sure, Beethoven was many things: depressed, manic, euphoric, prolific, arrogant, unkempt, financially reckless, egotistical, suicidal, self-centered, a hypochondriac, and an alcoholic, to name a few. But his music — some would argue — is the best ever written.
I feel a special connection to Van Gogh’s art. The vibrancy the complementary colors as well as the detached-from-reality aspect of his canvasses strikes a chord with me. And when I look at many of his paintings at this exhibit, it reminds me of the psychotic state I was in during my 2007 meltdown. Colors pulsating. Off-kilter perspective. Vibrating lines. Oscillation.
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s masterpiece The Scream is as iconic as The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, Guernica by Pablo Picasso, and The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí. It has been called “A Mona Lisa for our time.” And it was born out of a bipolar hallucination.
One of the most outspoken opponents of bipolar stigma is Demi Lovato, the former Disney star turned multimedia darling who is bipolar and has also struggled with addiction, bulimia, and self-harm.
Halsey is a tough girl with a rebellious mystique. A rare commodity in this world of plastic music, she is a pop star who writes all her own material. Her debut album Badlands currently sits at number 16 on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart. It peaked at number two. She’s accomplished all of this in the face of bipolar.
He’s got more than 11 million Twitter followers, is the author of 10 books, and has taken on roles in The Hobbit films. He’s also played characters in V for Vendetta, and the Sherlock Holmes movies, among others. The outspoken, gay Fry was diagnosed at age 37 with Bipolar I disorder. And he talks about it at length in the media.
“She walks in beauty like the night.” We’ve all heard that poem. It was written by Lord Byron, the 19th-century English poet, a man who also struggled with manic depression.
Drip. Drip. Drip. SPLAT. Drip. Drip. SLATHER. Drip. Drip. SPLAT. That’s the sound of Jackson Pollock, stick in hand in a barn-turned-studio on Long Island, drenching his canvas with paint for his latest masterpiece. We’ve all seen his iconic, messy paintings, but what about the man behind the mess?
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most iconic celebrities in American history. She’s right up there with Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson for her fame fingerprint. Her face is emblazoned in the pantheons of art history as the beautiful subject of many Andy Warhol screenprints. She was the ultimate sex symbol – Playboy magazine’s…
