Famous people with bipolar disorder contest

Famous people with bipolar disorder include some of the world’s foremost musicians, actors, writers, composers and scientists.

Our new YouTube contest uses the current interest in bipolar celebrity to raise awareness about bipolar disorder. The Famous Bipolar People Contest encourages research and reflection. A $50 gift credit card is being offered to give viewers an incentive to do more than just passively consume celebrity gossip and images of famous bipolar people.



The video has been released on YouTube and is available now.

Bipolar disorder is in the news constantly right now. This has done a lot of good in terms of raising awareness and shattering some of the myths about bipolar. However, unfortunately some of the coverage is still uninformed or unbalanced in its negativity. The bipolar celebrity angle gets a lot of attention, but so much valuable information about how successful people have triumphed over bipolar never makes it into the popular media. We hope the images in the video will provide a balance of light and dark and, and spark viewer curiosity about why the famous bipolar people represented experienced such a different range of outcomes.

The contest, which is free to enter, offers a prize of a $50 gift credit card. Entrants must do three things: 1. Correctly name the twelve faces that appear in the video, And

2. Name the famous bipolar composer whose music plays in the video, And

3. Write a haiku about bipolar disorder.

The winner will be selected on merit and chance plays no part.

The $50 gift credit card prize is generously provided by contest sponsor Credit Cards Comparisons, a leading Internet provider of consumer information about credit cards and personal finance.

Entries will be accepted up until midnight on July 26, 2008 Eastern Time. The winner will be announced on the www.bipolar-lives.com website and on YouTube on July 27, 2008.

One entry per person please.

Entries should be submitted using the Contact Form.

UPDATE 7/27/08: Famous People with Bipolar Disorder Contest CLOSED! Thank you everyone for your excellent entries. The people featured are: Ada Byron, Brian Wilson, Carrie Fisher, Linda Hamilton, Kurt Cobain, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lord Byron, Patrick Kennedy, Britney Spears, Sir Winston Churchhill, Kay Redfield Jamison, Kurt Cobain, and Sarah from www.bipolar-lives.com. The music is by Robert Schumann. The winner of the $50 gift card is Beth, a psychology student from Tennessee.

Interested in more information about famous bipolar people? Check out Bipolar-Lives' pages on Winston Churchill and Manic Depression, our Bipolar Autobiography page, Kurt Cobain and Manic Depression, and of course Famous Bipolar People.

Also, Wikipedia has recently improved their entry on the subject and now only list people where sources can be verified. Use this to find more information about people from the video such as Ada Byron and Brian Wilson, and the great bipolar composer Robert Schumann. (Britney Spears hasn't quite made it in there yet.) See Wikipedia's new and improved List of people affected by bipolar disorder. Or you may prefer to mingle with some real live (maybe) famous - but probably obscure - folks like you and me in our bipolar chat room.

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