I’m big Anglophile (I’ve been pinching British BBC shows since ’07) and up there among my favorite English celebrities is Stephen Fry, who just happens to be bipolar. He released, recently, his second documentary on the condition called The Not So Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, a 10 yr followup to his first revealing…
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The existence of a driving force driving bipolar folks toward entrepreneurship has been widely studied.. and it’s in no way because they dislike or can’t hack in a more traditional setting. Manic depressives tend not only to gravitate toward entrepreneurial careers, the startups themselves demonstrate many of the traits common to bipolar disorder. Legendary startup…
When I was first diagnosed, I asked my psychologist why people with bipolar disorder hadn’t been culled out of the population through natural selection. To me it seemed that manic depressives are marked less fit for survival; if, as most in the psychiatric community agree, bipolar disorder has genetic roots, then those fortunate folks would…
“Alex De Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Choose any American at random, and he should be a man of burning desires, enterprising, adventurous, and, above all, an innovator.”
