You're in good company: famous achievers throughout history have experienced anxiety and/or depression.

[Jeff1943]

If Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Sigmund Freud were alive today they'd probably be on this forum. They're just three famous movers and shakers who achieved success despite poor mental health. I've listed a few more below.

There's been this feeling that anxiety and depression was a 'weakness' rather than a normal response to anxiety overload. So we hid it from the people we worked for, our friends and neighbours. I know I did, it's only recently I've told people I've known for years.

We thought bosses would think us unreliable and wouldn't want to employ us. But it seems some of the biggest achievers, both historical and contemporary, had the same problems and it never held them back. So it shouldn't hold any of us back either. Am I right or am I right.

Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President.

Winston Churchill, U.K. War Leader.

Vincent Van Gogh, Painter.

Isaac Newton, Scientist.

Wolfgang Mozart, Music Composer.

Charles Darwin, Scientist.

Michelangelo, Artist.

Julius Caesar, Emperor.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Poet.

Aretha Franklin, Singer.

Burt Reynolds, Actor.

Charlotte Bronte, Author.

Winifrey Oprah, TV host.

David Bowie, Singer.

Elizabeth Taylor, Actress.

John Steinbeck, Author.

Kate Moss, Supermodel.

Naomi Campbell, Supermodel.

Nicola Tesler, Inventor.

David Beckham, Soccer Star.

Charles Dickens, Author.

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I've left a space above for your name to be added 🤔.

[bergh]

Oh how you are so right Jeff X😍👍💪🫶

[fauxartist]

Vincent van Gogh, Goya, Caravaggio... although their mental illness was brought on by lead poisoning. Edgar Allen Poe, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc. It's that razors edge walked between sanity and insanity, that ability to see what others may not, and the ability to express those dreams and visions. Whether it's on canvas or in writing...or in an imperial formula...or a mathematical equation...that's the 'genius'.