Counseling and Wellness

Famous people with depression

If you do feel depressed, you’re not alone.

Many famous people have struggled with depression – some more succesfully than others. And although some would claim that depression was a part of their genius, or gave them something extra, most people want to get rid of it and feel “normal”.

Actors | Artists | Composers | Musicians | Poets | Royalty | Writers





Actors and directors

Roseanne Arnold, Jim Carrey, Francis Ford Coppola, Harrison Ford, Hugh Laurie, Spike Mulligan, Brooke Shields, Ted Turner, Robin Williams



Artists

Paul Gauguin, Edward Lear, Michelangelo, Dante Gabriel Rossetti



Composers

Ludwig von Beethoven, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, George Frederic Handel, Gustav Holst, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Giocchino Rossini, Robert Schumann, Peter Tchaikovsky



Musicians

Sheryl Crow, John Denver, Peter Gabriel, Billy Joel, Axl Rose



Poets

William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Victor Hugo, Samuel Johnson, John Keats, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Ezra Pound, Anne Sexton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman



Royalty

Diana, Princess of Wales; Queen Victoria



Writers

James Barrie, William Faulkner , F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Isak Dinesen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Anne Rice, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Tan, Leo Tolstoy, Mary Wollstonecraft

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