Below please find a list of 300 celebrities/famous people (alive and passed) who have or still suffer with mental health problems or illnesses or learning disorders. I have taken great care to compile this list from information which is openly available on the internet so to my knowledge it is a true list, but I do not and cannot take responsibility for any mistakes as I do not know any of the people below personally. This is just a small collection of names of course, since one in four of us suffer with mental health problems at some point in our lives, of course there are many more to add to this list that I don’t know about. The great shame about my research is that I have not found ONE person who has BPD (borderline personality disorder) or any other personality disorder, apart from Marsha Linehan. Considering BPD affects 2% of population, I find it hard to believe that there is not ONE famous person who has BPD or personality disorders. I believe stigma is to blame for no-one ‘coming out’ about having BPD or other personality disorders, but I would love to know about more famous people with BPD or a personality disorder – any ideas anyone??? Please help – it would greatly help us raise knowledge of personality disorders to a wider audience. It is not to say that a celebrity is any more important than any other human being who has mental illness but they have the audience and fan bases to share their stories with…
| celebrities with mental health issues | illness/disorder |
| Abbie Hoffman | bipolar disorder (speculated) |
| Abraham Lincoln | severe clinical depression |
| Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) | boipolr |
| Adam Rickett | bulimia nervosa |
| Alanis Morissette | clinical depression |
| Alastair Campbell | depression |
| Albert Einstein | dyslexia (speculated) |
| Alexander Graham Bell | dyslexia |
| Alfred Taubman | dyslexia |
| Ally Sheedy | bulimia nervosa; substance abuse |
| Alma Powell | clinical depression |
| Alonzo Spellman | bipolar disorder |
| Alvin Ailey | bipolar disorder (aka “manic depression”) |
| Amy Heckerling | eating disorders; obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| Angelina Jolie | depression and self harm |
| Anne Sexton | clinical depression |
| Ann-Margret | clinical depression; alcoholism |
| Art Buchwald | bipolar disorder |
| Audrey Hepburn | clinical depression; eating disorders |
| Axl Rose | bipolar disorder |
| Barbara Niven | bulimia nervosa |
| Barbra Streisand | social phobia |
| Ben Moody | depression |
| Ben Stiller | bipolar disorder |
| Ben Vereen | clinical depression |
| Benjamin Disraeli | clinical depression |
| Bert Yancey | bipolar disorder |
| Bill Lichtenstein | bipolar disorder |
| Bill Oddie | bipolar |
| Billy Joel | alcohol and depression |
| Billy Joel | clinical depression |
| Boris Yeltsin | clinical depression |
| Brian Wilson | bipolar disorder |
| Britney Spears | bipolar and post natal depression |
| Brooke Shields | postpartum depression |
| Burgess Meredith | bipolar disorder |
| Buzz Aldrin | clinical depression |
| Calvin Coolidge | clinical depression (speculated) |
| Carly Simon | social phobia |
| Carmen Miranda | clinical depression |
| Caroline Aherne | major depressive disorder |
| Carrie Fisher | bipolar disorder, substance abuse; |
| Cary Grant | clinical depression |
| catherine zeta jones | bipolar II |
| Charles “Buddy” Bolden | schizophrenia |
| Charles Darwin | severe panic disorder |
| Charles Dickens | clinical depression; bipolar disorder (suspected) |
| Charles Faust | schizophrenia |
| Charles Schulz | clinical depression |
| Charles Schwab | dyslexia |
| Charley Pell | clinical depression |
| Charley Pride | bipolar disorder; alcoholism |
| Clara Bow | clinical depression |
| Cole Porter | clinical depression; alcoholism; paranoid delusions; obsessive-compulsive disorder (speculated) |
| Connie Francis | clinical depression |
| Courtney Love | drub abuse, clinical depression |
| Craig Ferguson | alcoholic |
| Craig McCaw | dyslexia |
| Dame Kelly Holmes | depression and self harm |
| Damon Wayans | clinical depression |
| Daniel Johns | clinical depression; anxiety disorder;eating disorder |
| Danny Glover | learning disability |
| Darryl Strawberry | clinical depression |
| David Boies | dyslexia |
| David Bowie | crying but not diagnosed but lots of family mental health issues |
| David Murdock | dyslexia |
| Delta Burke | depression and compulsive hoarding |
| Denise Welch | nervous breakdown |
| Diane Arbus | clinical depression |
| Dick Cavett | depression – found electro shock therapy helpful |
| Dick Clark | clinical depression |
| Dimitrius Underwood | bipolar disorder |
| DMX | bipolar |
| Dolly Parton | clinical depression |
| Donald Trump | possible OCD |
| Donny Osmond | clinical depression; social phobia |
| Dorothy Day | clinical depression |
| Doug Ferrari | borderline personality disorder |
| Doug Flutie, Jr. | autism |
| Drew Barrymore | clinical depression; alcoholism, substance abuse; |
| Drew Carey | clinical depression |
| Dwight Gooden | clinical depression |
| Earl Campbell | panic disorder |
| Edgar Allan Poe | clinical depression (speculated); alcoholism |
| Edward McVaney | dyslexia |
| Elizabeth Hartman | clinical depression (speculated) |
| Elton John | substance abuse and bulimia |
| Emily Carr | various speculations, neurasthenia; hypochondriasis; clinical depression; conversion disorder; schizophrenia: |
| Emma Thompson | clinical depression |
| Eric Clapton | clinical depression |
| Ernest Hemingway | clinical depression |
| Eugene O’Neill | clinical depression |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | clinical depression |
| Fiona Phillips | depression |
| Frances Lear | bipolar disorder;, substance abuse |
| Francis Ford Coppola | bipolar disorder |
| Frank Bruno | bipolar |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | clinical depression |
| Gaetano Donizetti | bipolar disorder |
| Gail Porter | post natal depression |
| George Eliot (Marian Evans) | clinical depression |
| George Michael | depression and fear |
| George S. Patton | clinical depression; dyslexia |
| George Washington | learning disability |
| Georgia O’Keeffe | clinical depression |
| Graeme Obree | depression |
| Halle Berry | suicide attempt |
| Harrison Ford | clinical depression |
| Harry Andersen | learning disability |
| Hart Crane | clinical depression; alcoholism |
| Heath Ledger | depression, anxiety and sleep depravation |
| Henry Winkler | learning disability |
| Herb McCauley | bulimia nervosa |
| Hermann Hesse | clinical depression |
| Herschel Walker | dissociative identity disorder |
| Howard Hughes | OCD (clinical depression and psychosis both speculated |
| Howard Stern | obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| Howie Mandel | obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| Hugh Laurie | depression |
| Hunter Tylo | clinical depression |
| Irving Berlin | clinical depression |
| Isaac Newton | bipolar disorder (suspected) |
| J.P. Morgan | bipolar disorder |
| Jack Dee | depression |
| Jack Farrell | clinical depression |
| Jack Irons | bipolar disorder |
| Jack Kerouac | clinical depression, substance abuse, severe alcoholism; |
| Jackson Pollock | clinical depression; substance abuse |
| Jaco Pastorius | bipolar disorder; alcoholism; substance abuse |
| James Dean Bradfield | bipolar |
| James Forrestal | clinical depression |
| James Garner | clinical depression |
| James Taylor | clinical depression; bipolar disorder |
| Jane Fonda | bulimia nervosa |
| Jane Pauley | bipolar |
| Janet Jackson | clinical depression |
| Jean-Claude Van Damme | bipolar disorder |
| Jessica Alba | OCD and eating disorder |
| Jessica Lange | clinical depression |
| Jim Carrey | clinical depression |
| Jimmy Piersall | bipolar disorder |
| Joan Rivers | clinical depression; bulimia nervosa |
| Joey Kramer | clinical depression |
| Joey Slinger | clinical depression |
| John Chambers | dyslexia |
| John Daly | bipolar disorder; alcoholism, gambling addiction; |
| John Forbes Nash | schizophrenia (paranoid-type) |
| John Gibson | bipolar disorder |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | clinical depression |
| John Madden | specific phobia (flying) |
| John Mulheren | bipolar disorder |
| John Nash | schizophrenia |
| John Quincy Adams | clinical depression |
| Jose Canseco | clinical depression |
| Joshua Logan | bipolar disorder |
| Judy Garland | clinical depression;,substance abuse |
| Jules Feiffer | clinical depression |
| Julie Krone | post-traumatic stress disorder; clinical depression |
| Justine Bateman | eating disorders |
| Karen Carpenter | anorexia nervosa |
| Karen Kain | clinical depression |
| Kate Millett | bipolar disorder |
| Katie Price/Jordan | post natal depression |
| Keisha Buchanan | depression |
| Kendall Gill | clinical depression |
| Kim Basinger | panic disorder |
| Kitty Dukakis | bipolar disorder, alcoholism; substance abuse; |
| Kris Kristopherson | clinical depression; substance abuse |
| Kristy McNichol | bipolar disorder |
| Kurt Cobain | attention deficit disorder and bipolar depression |
| Kurt Vonnegut | clinical depression/bipolar |
| Kylie Minogue | depression |
| Larry Flynt | bipolar disorder |
| Larry King | clinical depression |
| Lawton Chiles | clinical depression |
| Lenny Henry | depression |
| Leo Tolstoy | clinical depression; hypochondriasis; alcoholism; substance abuse |
| Leonard Bernstein | clinical depression |
| Leonard Cohen | clinical depression |
| Lewis Preston | dyslexia |
| Linda Hamilton | bipolar disorder |
| Lionel Aldridge | schizophrenia (paranoid-type) |
| Lord Bragg | depression |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | bipolar disorder |
| Macy Gray | bipolar |
| Marc Summers | obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| Margaret Trudeau Kemper | bipolar disorder |
| Margaux Hemingway | dyslexia; alcoholism; clinical depression (speculated) |
| Margot Kidder | manic depression (Bipolar) and paranoia |
| Marie Osmond | clinical depression, post-partum |
| Marilyn Monroe | clinical depression/suicide |
| Mark Rothko | clinical depression |
| Marsha Linehan | bpd |
| Meg Mathews | depression |
| Megan Fox | ??? She hasn’t been diagnosed |
| Mel C: | depression |
| Mel Gibson | bipolar |
| Melinda Messenger | depression |
| Meriwether Lewis | clinical depression |
| Michael Phelps | attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
| Mike Tyson | depression and severe insecurities and anger |
| Mike Wallace | clinical depression |
| Morrissey (S.P.) | clinical depression |
| Murray Pezim | bipolar disorder |
| Natalie Cole | clinical depression |
| Ned Beatty | bipolar disorder |
| Neil Lennon | depression |
| Neil Simon | clinical depression |
| Nelson Rockefeller | dyslexia |
| Nicole Kidman | panic attacks on the red carpet |
| Norman Mailer | clinical depression |
| Ozzy Osbourne | bipolar |
| Pablo Picasso | clinical depression |
| Pat Lafontaine | clinical depression |
| Patricia Cornwell | bipolar disorder, anorexia nervosa, anorexia bulimia;; |
| Patrick Kennedy | clinical depression |
| Patsy Palmer | depression and panic attacks |
| Patty Duke | bipolar disorder |
| Paul Gascoigne | clinical depression |
| Paul Simon | clinical depression |
| Paula Abdul | bullimia nervosa |
| Paula Deen | Agoraphobia and panic attacks |
| Pete Harnisch | clinical depression |
| Peter Gabriel | clinical depression |
| Peter Greene | schizophrenia |
| Phil Spector | clinical depression/bipolar |
| Pierre Péladeau | bipolar disorder |
| Princess Diana | Bulimia nevosa, depression and multiple suicide attempts |
| Queen Victoria | clinical depression |
| Ray Charles | clinical depression |
| Richard Branson | dyslexia |
| Richard Dreyfuss | clinical depression/bipolar |
| Richard Simmons | anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa; |
| Richey James | clinical depression, anorexia nervosa;;alcoholism |
| Rick Springfield | clinical depression |
| Ricky Williams | social phobia |
| Robbie Williams | depression |
| Robert Boorstin | bipolar disorder |
| Robert Campeau | bipolar disorder |
| Robert Lowell | bipolar disorder |
| Robert McFarlane | clinical depression |
| Robert Munsch | bipolar disorder |
| Robert Young | clinical depression; alcoholism |
| Robin Williams | clinical depression, learning disability; |
| Rod Steiger | clinical depression |
| Rodney Dangerfield | clinical depression |
| Roseanne | dissociative identity disorder (aka “multiple personality disorder”); obsessive-compulsive disorder; clinical depression; agoraphobia |
| Rosemary Clooney | bipolar |
| Ruby Wax | depression |
| Russell Grant | depression |
| Sandra Dee | anorexia nervosa |
| Sarah Lancashire | depression |
| Sarah McLachlan | clinical depression |
| Scott Donie | clinical depression |
| Shayne Corson | panic attacks |
| Shecky Greene | bipolar disorder, with severe panic attacks |
| Sheryl Crow | clinical depression |
| Sigmund Freud | clinical depression |
| Sinead O’Connor | bipolar |
| Sir Anthony Hopkins | clinical depression |
| Sir Elton John | bulimia nervosa; substance abuse, alcoholism; |
| Sophie Anderton | drug addiction and depression |
| Spencer Tracy | clinical depression; alcoholism |
| Spike Milligan | bipolar disorder |
| Stephen Fry | bipolar depression |
| Steve Blass | social phobia |
| Steve Sax | social phobia |
| Sting (Gordon Sumner) | clinical depression |
| Susan Powter | clinical depression |
| Syd Barrett | schizophrenia |
| Sylvia Plath | clinical depression |
| Tammy Wynette | clinical depression, substance abuse; |
| Ted Turner | bipolar disorder |
| Tennessee Williams | clinical depression |
| Theodore Dreiser | clinical depression |
| Thomas Alva Edison | dyslexia |
| Thomas Eagleton | clinical depression |
| Tiberius | clinical depression (speculated) |
| Tipper Gore | clinical depression |
| Tom Cruise | dyslexia |
| Tony Slattery | bipolar |
| Tracey Gold | anorexia nervosa, attention deficit disorder; |
| Tracy Thompson | clinical depression |
| Trisha Goddard | depression |
| Tulisa’s mum | Tulisa’s mum had scizoaffective disorder |
| Uma Thurman | depression |
| Vaslav Nijinsky | schizophrenia |
| Veronica Lake | schizophrenia; alcoholism |
| Vincent Foster | clinical depression (speculated) |
| Vincent van Gogh | clinical depression; bipolar disorder (speculated) |
| Vivien Leigh | bipolar disorder after miscarriage |
| Walker Percy | clinical depression |
| Walt Disney | dyslexia |
| Whoopi Goldberg | dyslexia |
| William Hewlett | dyslexia |
| William Styron | clinical depression |
| Winona Ryder | clinical depression; anxiety |
| Winston Churchill | bipolar disorder; dyslexia |
| Woodrow Wilson | dyslexia |
| Yves Saint Laurent | clinical depression |
20th August update in memory of Robin William’s death last week. Suicide, drugs, alcohol and depression CLICK HERE FOR THE MEMORY OF ROBIN WILLIAMS
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