Stephen Fry: Wordsmith, provocateur extraordinaire, stupendously intelligent, extraordinary wit, deliciously good author and person with bipolar. Stephen has cyclothymic disorder, a mild form of bipolar where a person has mood swings over a period of years that go from mild depression to euphoria and excitement. Fry affectiontally labelled his bipolar "bipolar lite". The … [Read more...]
How Emma Thompson Beat Depression
Emma Thompson is an award-winning British actress. She’s also battled severe depression for most of her life that has at times crippled her. Her first encounter with depression was when she was acting in Me and My Girl: I think my first bout of that was when I was doing Me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn’t change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into … [Read more...]
How Hugh Laurie Beat Depression
Hugh Laurie is best known for playing Doctor House; a walking-wounded medical genius whose brilliance and brokenness is deeply intertwined. Like his character, Laurie has wrestled with bouts of major depression. Laurie came to prominence and fame on the back of a famous theatrical review in Cambridge, where he teamed up with Emma Thompson and Stephen Fry. Curiously both … [Read more...]