What do Winston Churchill, Vincent VanGogh, and Ted Turner all have in common? A diagnosis of mental illness. Despite the best efforts of the Mental Death System to categorize the awareness-enhanced as intellectually-deficient 4-year olds who must have their freedom restricted, their options contained, and their activities supervised by others-- primarily by all-knowing MHPs-- a brief perusal of the names listed below will show this self-serving lie for what it is, and what it has always been-- an attempt by the mediocre to control that which surpasses their limited powers of comprehension. The lists that follow represent no more than a partial sampling of the perceptually-different who, either during or after their lifetimes, were assigned a psychiatric diagnosis. The debate rages on about many of the past-- and present-- but the stigmatization of labelling cannot diminish the accomplishments of labeled.

These names were drawn from numerous sources, including-- but not limited to-- Kay Redfield Jamison's highly acclaimed book "Touched With Fire." All living persons listed have publicly acknowledged their experiences with one or another variety of psychiatric "disorder," with each dealing with it as he or she sees fit. The message to be found here was best stated by R.D. Laing, who pointed out that "Madness need not all be breakdown-- it may also be breakthrough."

Artists:

ARTISTS WRITERS POETS COMPOSERS POLITICAL FIGURES
ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

Writers:

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ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

Poets:

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ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

Composers:

Non-Classical Composers and Musicians:

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ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

Political Figures:

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ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

Entertainers and Personalities:

ARTISTS WRITERS POETS COMPOSERS POLITICAL FIGURES
ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

Scientists, Philosophers, and Theorists:

Ludwig Boltzmann	Nicolaus Copernicus	Michael Faraday
George Fox	John Kenneth Galbraith	Kurt Godel
Stephen Hawking	William James	Johannes Kepler
Soren Kierkegaard	Baron Gottfried Wilhelm Lebnitz	Salvador Luria (Nobel Laureate)
Martin Luther	John Stuart Mill	Isaac Newton
Friedrich Nietzsche	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Plato*
Socrates*	John Strugnell	James Swedenborg

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ENTERTAINERS and PERSONALITIES SCIENTISTS, PHILOSOPHERS, and THEORISTS

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