Famous People with Schizophrenia
Famous people with schizophrenia are listed on this page. Some
of the celebrities and other notables are also listed on the famous
people with mental illness list.
A couple of those listed on the famous people with schizophrenia
page are also on the famous
people with bipolar disorder list as well. One reason is that
there has been confusion within the psychological profession since
both diseases share some common symptoms and were in the past
commonly misdiagnosed.
Another reason is that the best guess of differing physicians
and other mental health professionals will place the same person
into two different categories. So, on with the list.
Famous People with Schizophrenia
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Lionel Aldridge
Antoin Artaud
Syd Barrett
Charles Bolden
Eduard Einstein
Jack Kerouac
Roger Kynard Erickson
Andy Goram
James Beck Gordon
Peter Green
Tom Harrell
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Mary Todd Lincoln
William Chester Minor
John Nash
Vaclav Nijinsky
Joe Meek
Bob Mosley
Meera Popkin
Alexander Spence
Mark Vonnegut
Rose Williams
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Some of the famous people with schizophrenia had led productive
lives before the onset of their diseases, but not so much afterwards.
Other famous people with schizophrenia were able to be treated
effectively and move on successfully.
Known as perhaps the most severe of mental illnesses, schizophrenia
may be successfully treated in some cases. In other cases no treatment
is very successful. And, in yet other cases, the disease will,
without warning disappear altogether.
The list of famous people with schizophrenia presented here span
the spectrum from those like Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett who descended
into mental illness without recovery to Mark Vonnegut (who could
have either been biopolar or schizophrenic) and Lionel Aldridge
who have made a miraculous recovery from the disease. And, of
course, as with every other disease there are all shades of gray
in-between on the health spectrum.
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