Manic Depression facts
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A few minutes of simulated sunlight can be used to treat depression and bipolar disorder, but it can also trigger manic episodes in some.
Popular children's author, Robert Munsch, never did well in school, almost became a Jesuit Priest, and discovered his passion for storytelling after working with children. He also has OCD and is manic depressive.
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By 1933, California had subjected more people (deaf, gay, manic depressed, schizophrenic) to forceful sterilization than all other U.S. states combined. The forced sterilization program engineered by the Nazis was partly inspired by California's.
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Until 1950, 7 UP contained lithium, a common treatment for manic depressive disorder.
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Individuals with schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness constitute one-third of the United States homeless population.
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Injections of malaria were used to treat patients of syphilis, manic depressive disorder, schizophrenia and HIV across the course of the 20th century, resulting in the deaths of up to 13% of those who were subject to 'malariotherapy'.
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In 1979, director Francis Ford Coppola, in the grip of clinical manic depression and anxiety over his incomplete opus Apocalypse Now, proposed making a "ten-hour film version of Goethe's Elective Affinities, in 3D".
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Vincent van Gogh led a very tragic life that may have been attributed to Geschwind syndrome (temporal lobe epilepsy, manic and depressive tendencies, altered sexuality, paranoia, hypergraphia)
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Celebrated children's author Robert Munsch is diagnosed with OCD, bipolar disorder, manic depressive, and is a recovering alcoholic and cocaine addict.
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Kanye West likely suffers from bipolar depression, with manic episodes explaining some of his stranger behaviors
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Depression isn't a necessary part of a diagnosis of bipolar disorder (which is often called manic depression). There are several different subtypes of bipolar; diagnosis of bipolar I only requires a manic state.
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