Celebrities and MH
 

So I'm doing a project for psychology on media influences, and mine is on the stigma surrounding mental illness.

I am working on a poster of the faces of celebrities with various MH disorders they suffer from printed across their face and the caption 'See the face behind the label', or something of the sort.

I have a few already, but does anyone know of any celebrities with DID, schizophrenia, BPD, post natal depression or anorexia? Or anything else you can think of other than bipolar, depression, OCD or BPD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :)

Syd Barrett sziophernia
Herschel Walker and Adam Duritz the counting crows singer: DID
Howard Hughes OCD
Elton John bulimia
Michael Phelps ADHD
Brian Willson schizoaffective disorder
Brooke Shields postpartum depresion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...polar_disorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ith_depression
http://maddieruud.hubpages.com/hub/C..._List_and_Pics

Thanks guys, those are both really helpful :)

Did - the only one I can think of is Mary magdalene might have had it. Pity there aren't more people with schizophrenia out - could really do with getting rid of stigma

Howie Mandel- ocd

Lady gaga was bulimic she spoke in a magazine about it
If u look at celb magz u will find loads

I know Christina Ricci (I think that's how you spell it) gave an interview recently about having a history of self harm and being anorexic as a teenager.

Thank you all :) I didn't know about many of these.

I'm sure the link was posted on a similar thread a while ago, but it's more to do with SH.

http://self-injury.net/media/famous-self-injurers

Stephen Fry is bipolar.

There are loads more I'm sure but that stuck in my mind.

Demi Lovato has bipolar, and also has a history of anorexia, bulimia and self harm

Time to Change has mentioned things about celebs before, including sports personalities. They have a Facebook page you could look up.

Economist John Nash had schizophrenia.

Anyways, if your willing to do a bit of speculation, you could find a few celebrities with BPD.

Angelina Jolie had been involved with SH for a long time,
And I hear that she had clinical depression too.

In fact, when I typed in "Angelina Jolie" most of my results were about Depression.

Carrie Fisher has Bipolar and was a drug addict.

The guy from A Beautiful Mind was Schizophrenic (John Nash as saomeone above said)
Alan Turnig I think had depression.

Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer apparently had/have OCD

Russell Brand has Bipolar...

I know alot of these but can't think of any more right now.

Robin Williams - Bipolar
catherine zeta jones - Bipolar II
Brooke Shields - was very public about her experience with postpartum depression

Alan Turing got depressed because he was persecuted by the nation that he had served.

Didn't he say something to the effect that he's been diagnosed with every label in the DSM?

No idea I'm afraid.

Frankie from The Saturdays had/has depression http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...1j2l3l0.frgbld.