Kay Jamison: The connection of bipolar disorder and genius
For many people, the diagnosis of bipolar disorder becomes a shock. It is difficult to come to terms with a serious mental illness for life, so it is very important to know that this is not a sentence, not a reason to give up and abandon an active life. Many of the great and simply talented people-poets, writers, artists-lived and fought with manic-depressive disorder or clinical depression. Among them are Lord Byron, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Wolf, Edgar Po, Vincent Van Gogh, Robert Shuman.