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vendredi 18 mai 2007

éloge de la folie

Je suis tombée sur un groupe marrant sur Facebook:

Raving lunatics make the world a better place

Famous who have enriched our lives (in order of date of birth):

1641 Isaac Newton - bipolar disorder, depression, schizoid symptoms, paranoia
1757 William Blake – bipolar disorder, hallucinations
1770 Ludwig van Beethoven - bipolar disorder
1788 Lord Byron - bipolar disorder
1795 John Keats – bipolar disorder
1805 Hans Christian Andersen - bipolar disorder
1809 Charles Darwin – panic disorder, agoraphobia
1809 Abraham Lincoln – depression
1809 Edgar Allan Poe - depression, paranoia, alcoholism
1810 Robert Schumann - bipolar disorder
1812 Charles Dickens – depression, bipolar disorder
1820 Florence Nightingale – bipolar disorder, hallucinations
1828 Leo Tolstoy - depression
1853 Van Gogh – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
1863 Edvard Munch – bipolar disorder
1874 Winston Churchill – depression
1877 Herman Hesse – bipolar disorder
1882 Virginia Woolf - bipolar disorder, psychosis
1883 Franz Kafka – anorexia, obsessive-compulsive personality
1885 Sigrid Hjertén - schizophrenia, modernist painter who died of a botched lobotomy
1888 Eugene O'Neill - depression
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky – schizophrenia
1899 Ernest Hemingway – depression
1900 Zelda Fitzgerald - schizophrenia
1905 Howard Hughes - obsessive-compulsive disorder
1911 Tennessee Williams - depression
1913 Frances Farmer - paranoid schizophrenia
1922 Jack Kerouac - schizophrenia
1928 John Nash - schizophrenia
1928 Anne Sexton - bipolar disorder
1930 Buzz Aldrin – depression, alcoholism
1932 Sylvia Plath – depression, bipolar disorder
1941 Lionel Aldridge - paranoid schizophrenia
1947 Elton John – bulimia
1948 Nick Drake – depression, committed suicide
1950 Karen Carpenter – anorexia
1961 Princess Diana – bulimia
1967 Kurt Cobain - bipolar disorder

Il manque certainement toute une flopée de grands hommes/femmes du monde francophone...
Des idées de rajouts?

4 commentaires:

Elsa a dit…

Jacques Chirac, mythomane
Jean-Marie Messier, Mégalomane

Anonyme a dit…

Bernard Kouchner, désordre affectif

Elsa a dit…

Pierre Bérégovoy... neurasthénique^^

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On a dit des gens "who have enriched our lives" ;)