While it is true that many disorders of the mind such as severe Schizophonia can completely destroy a personality and alienate them from society.

This is not always the case and many extremely remarkable people over the course of human history have had the bipolar "disorder"  that has been hugely beneficial to them and even changed the course of human history for the good of humanity.

Bipolar people are the most creative individuals you can find, but there is a price to pay and a very heavy one for some as was the case with the suicide of the great actor Robin Williams! I know Robin was physically sick, but his disorder led to his mind blowing the severity of it out of all proportions to its actual reality, leading to his early most unfortunate demise.

Some of these remarkable people with a bipolar issue in their lives I list below!

This mild form of mania also exists in a large number of great and creative persons. It was in these remarkable people that had the huge energy of mild mania one saw in people like, Winston Churchill, Ludwig Van Beethoven, William Blake, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Dickens, T.S. Elliot, Robert Frost, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Robert Rowell, Michelangelo, Mozart, Isaac Newton, Edgar Allen Roe, Mark Twain, Vincent Van Gough, King David, and King Saul.
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This has been at times a burden to me, but at other times in my now protracted life, a personal doorway into the spiritual world, that very few have or can enter.

A person is the throes of mild mania, is not mad, but highly rational, creative and hugely energetic.

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Alan