Abraham Lincoln’s depression has been a topic of interest for quite a while, but did you know that 50% of all US Presidents suffered from mental illness, 50% of those while in office? Read more about the accomplishments and struggles of these role …
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Do you think that having a mental illness in some cases does boost a persons senses or makes them able to critically think better? I have noticed many leaders and “genious’” have had various mental disorders.
There’s a lot of debate about that, actually. There’s a growing movement of autism “celebration” – here’s an interesting overview:
http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2006/03/revenge-of-nerds.html
And related to bipolar disorder, Dr. Kay Redfield Jameson wrote a great book called Touched by Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and The Artistic Temperament:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/068483183X/ref=wl_it_dp/104-9066807-7452731?%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=3B2B8OKVOPA9M&coliid=I3U8GNWOLQNTX3&v=glance&n=283155
There have also been movies such as A Beautiful Mind, about a genius with schizophrenia:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/
Read “Bush On The Couch” Inside the mind of the President” by Justin A. Frank, M.D., a professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, for a frighteningly frank analysis and protrait of “the most psychologically damaged president since Nixon.” And how we, as a nation, “refused to confront the situation”.