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Famous Bipolar Leaders & Politicians
Churchill's black dog, Lincoln's melancholy, Napoleon's grandiosity - some of history's most consequential leaders governed while carrying mood disorders.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Boundless energy, grandiosity and collapse - a textbook historical case.
Winston Churchill
He called his depression the black dog; his manic energy won a war.
Patrick J. Kennedy
The congressman who disclosed his bipolar diagnosis and rewrote US mental health law.
Abraham Lincoln
Documented melancholy so severe his friends removed knives from his room.