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Summary: The following Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ) attempts to
    impart an understanding of depression including its causes; its
    symptoms; its medication and treatments--including professional
    treatments as well as things you can do to help yourself. In
    addition, information on where to get help, books to read, a list
    of famous people who suffer from depression, internet resources,
    instructions for posting anonymously, and a list of the many
    contributors is included.
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Part 5 of 5
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 **Famous People**
  - Who are some famous people who suffer from depression and bipolar
    disorder?

 **Internet Resources**
  - What are some electronic resources on the internet related to
    depression?

 **Anonymous Posting**
  - How can I post anonymously to alt.support.depression?

 **Sources**
  - Sources

 **Contributors**
  - Contributors


Famous People
-------------

Q. Who are some famous people who suffer from depression and bipolar
  disorder?

  This list represents a few of the famous people included in a list
  posted to a.s.d. on a periodic basis. Much of it is taken from the
  book by Kay Redfield Jamison, "Touched With Fire; Manic-Depressive
  Illness and the Artistic Temperament." The Free Press (Macmillan),
  New York, 1993. Used without permission, but with intent to educate,
  and not for profit. Please send updates (or additions) to
  [email protected]

 "This is meant to be an illustrative rather than a comprehensive
  list... Most of the writers, composers, and artists are American,
  British, European, Irish, or Russian; all are deceased... Many if
  not most of these writers, artists, and composers had other major
  problems as well, such as medical illnesses, alcoholism or drug
  addiction, or exceptionally difficult life circumstances. They are
  listed here as having suffered from a mood disorder because their
  mood symptoms predated their other conditions, because the nature
  and course of their mood and behavior symptoms were consistent with
  a diagnosis of an independently existing affective illness, and/or
  because their family histories of depression, manic-depressive
  illness, and suicide--coupled with their own symptoms--were
  sufficiently strong to warrant their inclusion." (from Touched With
  Fire...)

  KEY:
      H  = Asylum or psychiatric hospital
      S  = Suicide
      SA = Suicide Attempt

  **WRITERS:** Hans Christian Andersen, Honore de Balzac, James Barrie,
  William Faulkner (H), F. Scott Fitzgerald (H), Ernest Hemingway (H,
  S), Hermann Hesse (H, SA), Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, William James,
  Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Joseph Conrad (SA), Charles Dickens,
  Isak Dinesen (SA), Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Eugene
  O'Neill (H, SA), Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy,
  Tennessee Williams (H), Mary Wollstonecraft (SA), Virginia Woolf
  (H, S)

  **COMPOSERS:** Hector Berlioz (SA), Anton Bruckner (H), George
  Frederic Handel, Gustav Holst, Charles Ives, Gustav Mahler, Modest
  Mussorgsky, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Giocchino Rossini, Robert Schumann
  (H, SA), Alexander Scriabin, Peter Tchaikovsky

  **NONCLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS:** Irving Berlin (H), Noel
  Coward, Stephen Foster, Charles Mingus (H), Charles Parker (H, SA),
  Cole Porter (H)

  **POETS:** William Blake, Robert Burns, George Gordon, Lord Byron,
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hart Crane (S) , Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot
  (H), Oliver Goldsmith, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victor Hugo, Samuel
  Johnson, John Keats, Vachel Lindsay (S), James Russell Lowell, Robert
  Lowell (H), Edna St. Vincent Millay (H), Boris Pasternak (H), Sylvia
  Plath (H, S), Edgar Allan Poe (SA), Ezra Pound (H), Anne Sexton (H,
  S), Percy Bysshe Shelley (SA), Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas,
  Walt Whitman

  **ARTISTS:** Richard Dadd (H), Thomas Eakins, Paul Gauguin (SA),
  Vincent van Gogh (H, S), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S), Edward Lear,
  Michelangelo, Edvard Meunch (H), Georgia O'Keeffe (H), George Romney,
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA)

  **Confirmed Bipolars (still living):** Idi Amin, former dictator;
  Patty Duke (Anna Pearce), actor, writer; Connie Francis, actor,
  musician; Peter Gabriel, musician; Charles Haley, athlete (Dallas
  Cowboys); Kristy McNichols, actor; Spike Mulligan, comic actor;
  Abigail Padgett, mystery writer; Murray Pezim, financier (Canada);
  Charley Pride, musician; Axl Rose, musician; Ted Turner,
  entrepreneur, media giant (U.S.); Robin Williams, actor, comedian

  **Confirmed Unipolars (still living):** Roseanne Arnold, actor,
  writer, comedienne (also has Multiple personality disorder and
  obsessive compulsive disorder); Dick Cavett, writer, media
  personality; Tony Dow, actor, director; Kitty Dukakis, Massachusetts
  first lady; William Styron, writer; James Taylor, musician; Mike
  Wallace, news anchor.


Internet Resources
------------------

Q. What are some electronic resources on the internet related to
  depression?

  This list is a shortened version of one compiled and maintained by
  Sylvia Caras. It is posted periodically to ThisIsCrazy-L (see below
  for subscription information) If you would like to suggest additions
  for this list, contact <[email protected]> To suggest additions to
  this list for the Alt.support.depression FAQ, send them to
  [email protected].

  * News groups:
     alt.support.depression
     alt.support.phobias
     sci.psychology
     sci.med
     sci.med.psychobiology

  * Internet Health Resources is an extensive listing of medical
    resources available over the internet.
     ftp2.cc.ukans.edu
     cd pub/hmatrix
     get file medlst03.txt or medlst03.zip.

  * An FTP site at Temple University containing articles related to
    depression
     ftp 129.32.32.98
     cd/pub/psych

  * ThisIsCrazy is an electronic action and information letter for
    people who experience moods swings, fright, voices, and visions
    (People Who). To subscribe, send a message to [email protected]
    with this command in the body of the message:
     subscribe ThisIsCrazy-L

  * Pendulum is a mailing list for people diagnosed with bipolar mood
    disorder (manic depression) and related disorders and their
    supporters, and some professionals. To subscribe to pendulum, send
    a message to [email protected] containing the line
     subscribe pendulum

  * Walkers-in-Darkness is a list for people diagnosed with various
    depressive disorders (unipolar, atypical, and bipolar depression,
    S.A.D., related disorders). The list also includes sufferers of
    panic attacks and Borderline Personality Disorder. Please, no
    researchers trying to study us, etc. (Postings are copyrighted by
    individual posters.)

    To subscribe to walkers or walkers-digest, send a message to
    [email protected] containing the line "subscribe walkers" or,
    for the digest, "subscribe walkers-digest". There is an anonymous
    FTP site at ftp.std.com in ~/pub/walkers, that includes a technical
    FAQ.

  * To subscribe to the Mailbase list psychiatry send the command
    SUBSCRIBE psychiatry <your name> to [email protected]


Q. How can I post anonymously to alt.support.depression?

  You can post anonymously to alt.support.depression by using the
  anonymous server in Finland. For more information about the anonymous
  server, send mail to [email protected] for an automated reply that
  explains how to use the server. Special note While your posting will
  appear in alt.support.depression without any indication of your
  identity, your posting first has to be sent to Finland by e-mail. This
  makes the contents of your message no more secure than any other
  international e-mail (less secure if you don't trust the administrator
  of anon.penet.fi), which is to say not very secure at all. For more
  information, consult the Privacy & Anonymity on the Internet FAQ,
  posted regularly to sci.crypt, comp.society.privacy, and alt.privacy.


Sources
-------

  Pamphlet: Depression: What you need to know, National Institute of
  Mental Heath. By Marilyn Sargent. Office of Scientific Information
  National Institute of Mental Health

  Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM stands
  for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. It is
  published by the American Psychiatric Association. The latest version
  is the DSM-III-R (1987). For reference, the DSM-III was published in
  1980.
  The first edition of this manual was published in 1952, and the
  second edition in 1968. The fourth edition (DSM-IV) is currently in
  press and should be available this summer. It is used by the vast
  majority of psychologists and mental health professionals in the
  United States of America as a diagnostic tool. Psychiatrists and
  professionals outside of the U.S. will often use a diagnostic system
  called ICD-9, which differs in many respects from the DSM.


Contributors
------------

 Becky <[email protected]> Elmont,NY
 Brian Gerred <[email protected]>
 Dawn Sharon Friedman <[email protected]>
 Dana Quinn <[email protected]>
 John M. Grohol ([email protected]), Nova S.E. University
 Joy Ikelman <[email protected]> Boulder, CO
 [email protected] (Keith Rich)
 Mary-Anne Wolf <[email protected]>
 Rachel Findley
 Robert Orenstein ([email protected])
 Silja Muller <[email protected]>
 Stephan Klaus Heilmayr <[email protected]> Oakland, CA
 Sue W. <[email protected]>
 Sylvia Caras <[email protected]> Owner, ThisIsCrazy-L
 Todd Daniel Woodward <[email protected]> Mountain View, CA
 Wes Melander <[email protected]>

Editor: Cynthia Frazier ([email protected]) Lansing, NY

Special thanks to Ivan Goldberg, MD, NY Psychopharmacologic
Inst,.<[email protected]>, who has provided many of the questions and
answers as well as made corrections throughout the FAQ.

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