There are a lot of well known personalities around the world who has manic depressive problem
. Some are writers and some artists. These famous personalities in history who might have the problem are painters Amedeo Modigliani and Jackson Pollock, novelists Virginia Woolf and Ernest Hemingway, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, and composers Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergey Rachmaninoff. Critics of this study note that many innovative individuals do not suffer from bipolar problem, and that most folks with bipolar problem are not particularly creative.