Can anyone help me find some African American Bipolar inspiration?!
Question: During my senior year in high school, I was diagnosed with bipolar. It really discouraged me and I began thinking that there was nothing I could accomplish in life while having my condition. But time has passed and I now am in college and doing well. I was just wondering if anyone knows any famous African American who lived with bipolar but still became famous (thru positive means & was a good role model). I need a little inspiration. Thanks.
Answers: During my senior year in high school, I was diagnosed with bipolar. It really discouraged me and I began thinking that there was nothing I could accomplish in life while having my condition. But time has passed and I now am in college and doing well. I was just wondering if anyone knows any famous African American who lived with bipolar but still became famous (thru positive means & was a good role model). I need a little inspiration. Thanks.
To answer your question, yes, there is one musician who is Bi-Polar and done very well with his life. Charlie Pride, country singer. Check it out. But, whether we who suffer this disorder are of any african american, caucasion, oriental, native american or hispanic, we all suffer in the same ways, and we have the same ability to decide that we are in charge of our lives and not the bi-polar. I too have completed 2 years of college, and am in charge of my condition. I hope this helps you.
I honestly don't know of any; but that is because mostly in the past (especially with famous people), being diagnosed with Bipolar meant going to a psychiatrist and getting evaluated. Not many famous African Americans have done that.
But when you think; what about some black people that have self-destructed? What about drug addicts like talented musicians that die due to drug overdoses? They could have actually been Bipolar.
The fact is, even white people don't announce this stuff when they're famous. Only recently has Brittney Spears been called Bipolar, but there is only a handful of white women (not men), that have admitted to bipolar disorder.
The diagnosis of Bipolar is relatively new (last 10 years or 15). Before that, people were just 'crazy' or alchoholics, or drug addicts and such.
You can do some research online, but the fact is, Bipolar diagnosis is relatively new and an incredible milestone in psychiatry and mental disorders.
We now know (and I'm bipolar, by the way), that it is treatable with a medicine or two and also that it tends to be genetic: it runs in families.
Famous people RARELY admit to mental issues and often do not take the time to get such a diagnosis. Particularly Blacks, because honestly most famous people do not take the time to look into their mental disorders.
But hey, aren't some famous white people obviously manic? Some comedians. African Americans? Hasn't been documented yet, but that will come. After all, who has made milestones admitting other problems? We are now seeing blacks admitting to drug use, animal abuse, Multiple Sclerosis, steroid use, etc. This is new. As more African Americans use doctors and come clean, the more we will see these afflictions all across the boards with all races.
sorry but i don't know any african american BPD sufferers...
BUT
even though he's white....Einstein was bipolar....
he did a lot for everybody!