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I would caution you to separate mental illness from a person's predictability & reliability. Therein lies the stigma. As for hesitant to add a mentally ill per
by milesf 13y ago
I would caution you to separate mental illness from a person's predictability & reliability. Therein lies the stigma.
As for hesitant to add a mentally ill person, that means because of your bias you would have excluded all of these people:
Buzz Aldrin,
Woody Allen,
Adam Ant,
Roseanne Barr,
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Marlon Brando,
Drew Carey,
Jim Carrey,
Dick Cavett,
Winston Churchill,
Agatha Christie,
Dick Clark,
Rosemary Clooney,
Kurt Cobain,
Calvin Coolidge,
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Rodney Dangerfield,
John Denver,
Princess Diana,
Charles Dickens,
Patty Duke,
Kirsten Dunst,
Richard Dreyfuss,
T. S. Elliot,
William Faulkner,
Carrie Fisher,
Harrison Ford,
Connie Francis,
Paul Getty,
Mel Gibson,
Vincent Van Gogh,
Macy Gray,
Linda Hamilton,
Ernest Hemingway,
Abbie Hoffman,
Janet Jackson,
William James,
Billy Joel,
Samuel Johnson,
John Keats,
Jack Kerouac,
Margot Kidder,
Vivien Leigh,
Abraham Lincoln,
Mary Todd Lincoln,
Jack London,
Martin Luther,
Henri Matisse,
Kristy McNichol,
Burgess Meredith,
Michelangelo,
Bette Midler,
Spike Milligan,
Wolfgang Mozart,
Edvard Munch,
John Nash,
Isaac Newton,
Friedrich Nietzsche,
Florence Nightingale,
Sinead O'Connor,
Eugene O'Neill,
Ozzy Osbourne,
Marie Osmond,
Jane Pauley,
Edgar Allen Poe,
Jackson Pollock,
Charlie Pride,
John D. Rockefeller,
Theodore Roosevelt,
Axl Rose,
Mark Rothko,
J. K. Rowling,
Charles Schultz,
Peter Sellers,
Brooke Shields,
Robert Shumann,
Sarah Silverman,
Britney Spears,
Rod Steiger,
Ben Stiller,
James Taylor,
Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky,
Leo Tolstoy,
Ted Turner,
Mark Twain,
Tracy Ullman,
Kurt Vonnegut,
Mike Wallace,
Walt Whitman,
Tennessee Williams,
Jonathon Winters,
Brian Wilson,
Owen Wilson,
Virginia Woolf,
and Boris Yeltsin
Still want to cling to your filter?