Posted by BUCKEYE FANATIC on February 15, 2006, at 7:09:02 [reposted on February 15, 2006, at 18:17:37 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Lets say I have a million dolar, can I be happy?? » RetiredYoung, posted by Phillipa on February 14, 2006, at 21:40:13
I agree with Linage and others who say that Money buys better treatment...but does it buy better results????????? Here is a Link and a partial list of some rich and famous ( some just famous) who struggle(d) with mental Illness....(make sure you read all 3 pages)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1175/is_6_32/ai_56883556/pg_3
Barbara Bush * Former First Lady
Gamet Coleman * Texas legislator H
Kitty Dukakis * Former First Lady of Massachusetts H
Thomas Eagleton * Lawyer, former U.S. Senator H
Lynn Rivers * U.S. CongresswomanSol Wachtler * Judge H
Phil Graham * Owner of the Washington PostAbble Hoffman * Writer and political activist S
Robert McFarlane * Former National
Security Adviser SA, HAthletes
Ilie Natase * Tennis player and politician
Jimmie Piersall * Baseball player and announcer
Muffin Spencer Devlin * Pro golfer H
Bert Yancey * Pro golfer H, SA
Scientists
Buzz Aldrin * Astronaut, second man to walk on Moon H
Karl Paul Link * Chemist
Steven Hawking * Physicist, developed the
Big Bang creation theorySalvador Luria * Scientist of bacterial genetics,
Nobel LaureateEntertainers
Francis Ford Coppola * Director of The Godfather
Patty Duke * Actor on The Patty Duke Show SA
Linda Hamilton * Actor from The Terminator movies
Alvin Ailey * Dancer and choreographer
Dick Clark * Host of New Year's Rockin' Eve
Drew Barrymore * Movie actor and director SA, H
Writers
William Faulkner * The Sound and the Fury H
F. Scott Fitzgerald * The Great Gatsby H
Ernest Hemingway * The Old Man and the Sea H, S
Joseph Conrad * Heart of Darkness SA
Eugene O'Neill * The Iceman Cometh H, SA
Tennessee Williams * A Streetcar Named Desire H
Virginia Woolf * A Room of One's Own H, S
Jules Feiffer * cartoonist for the New Yorker
and the Village VoiceComposers/Musicians
Irving Berlin * White Christmas" and "God Bless America"
Cole Porter * Anything Goes
Hector Berlioz * Symphonie Fantastique
Kurt Cobain * Former musician for the band Nirvana S
Sting * Formerly of The Police and now a solo performer
Tam Waits * Experimental, progressive musician
Brian Wilson * Former member of the Beach Boys
Axl Rose * Singer for rock band Guns n' Roses
Ray Charles * Legendary R&B performer
Eric Clapton * Blues-rock musician H
Sheryl Crow * Rock musician
Sarah McLachlan * Pop singer and creator of Lilith Fair
Robert Schumann * German classical composer H, SA
Poets
T.S. Eliot * The Wasteland
Sylvia Plath * The Bell Jar
Edgar Allen Poe * "The Raven" SA
Anne Sexton * Live or Die SWalt Whitman * Leaves of Grass H, S
Artists
Vincent Van Gogh * Starry Night, Sunflowers H, S
Michelangelo * Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel
ceiling and sculptor of DavidEdvard Munch * The Scream H
Mark Rothko * Modern, color-block painting pioneer S
BF
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