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Major Depression is a mental disorder
characterized by an all-encompassing low mod accompanied by low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally
enjoyable activities. Manic depression is the same thing as
bipolar affective disorder. The
current term "bipolar disorder" is of fairly recent origin and refers to the cycling between high and low periods (poles).
Manic Depression is a psychiatric diagnosis that falls into the
categories of mood disorders and can often times be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia due the psychotic symptoms found in both
mental illnesses.
“When I go mad,
I call my friends
by phone:
I am afraid they might think
they're alone”
-Theodore Roethke
In 1935 Theodore Roethke was teaching as
a professor at Michigan State College in Lansing for what would turn out to be a brief interval. Roethke was hospitalized for what would prove to be a bout of mental illness, which would prove to be reoccurring. Manic Depression or more currently referred to as bipolar disorder is often times
severe enough that those inflicted are either a danger to themselves or others in which case; hospitalization would be required. However, in Roethke’s case, he found his depression to be useful for writing
and would claim in allowed him to explore a different mindset. Throughout his
subsequent career Roethke used these periodic incidents of depression for creative self-exploration. They allowed him, as
he said, to "reach a new level of reality."
(After his initial hospitalization in 1935: any subsequent incidents are ill-documented.)
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Myth: You have to suffer from either
Depression or Manic-Depression in order to become an accomplished poet/writer/artist.
Famous People Who Have Suffered
from Depression or Manic-Depression:
Sylvia
Plath, poet
Edgar Allen Poe, writer
Ozzie
Osborne, rock star
Sigmund
Freud, psychiatrist
William
Faulkner, writer
Eric
Clapton, blues-rock musician
Marilyn
Monroe, actress
Walt
Whitman, poet
Mark
Twain, author
Axl
Rose, rock star
Sir
Isaac Newton, physicist
Ernest
Hemingway, writer
Lord
Byron, poet
Kurt
Cobain, rock star
Emily
Dickenson, poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
Vincent Van Gogh, artist
Dylan Thomas, poet
Richard Nixon, U.S. president
Bob Dylan, Blues-rock Musician
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