TWELVE FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO WERE SUCCESSFUL DESPITE THEIR MENTAL ILLNESS
From Mike Wallace to Mark Twain…they not only survived but thrived.
OUR OWN KIND OF CRAZY
We all have our own kind of crazy
Yes some of our brains are just hazy
Some drink too much booze
Jump overboard on a cruise
Life’s a movie
Just call up Scorsese!?
From my poetry book Limerick Explosion.
While doing research for my book about Creative People I found quite a few famous people who suffered from serious and not so serious bouts of:
- Depression
- Mental illness
- Bi Polar disorder
- OCD issues
and other ‘craziness’(?) but who were still quite successful.
That’s what I want to focus on in this story. The good news — not the fact that there are many mentally ill creative people.
DUH! I mean we all know that’s true.
In this article I want to focus on the: