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Celebrities With Mental Illness Presentation

Mental illness knows no boundaries and affects people of all social strata. As a Learning Team, your assignment is to explore some famous people who have had mental illness and to discuss the details of their cases and how you would go about treating them.

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation that includes the following information:

· Who is the famous person? What are they famous for?

· When did his or her illness first develop?

· What were the primary symptoms?

· Discuss some of the treatment options available to your celebrity in the time of his or her illness (medical, therapy, or other), if at all?

· Discuss how you think this celebrity was able to remain successful in spite of the mental illness.

· What treatments would you recommend for your celebrity today? Include the following:

Medical

Therapeutic interventions

Social Interventions

Below are some celebrities you may choose. The celebrities have been designated by their illness type. Your instructor should approve your team’s celebrity choice to ensure more than one team does not choose the same person.

Schizophrenia or Psychosis

Elyn Saks

John Nash

Mary Todd Lincoln

Margot Kidder

Amanda Bynes

Depression

Abraham Lincoln

Tennessee Williams

Ernest Hemingway

Charles Dickens

Leo Tolstoy

Billy Joel

Brooke Shields (postpartum depression)

Asperger’s Syndrome or Autism

Michelangelo

Substance Abuse

Janis Joplin

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Howie Mandell

Frank Sinatra

Leonardo Dicaprio

Bipolar Disorder

Beethoven

Virginia Woolf

Vincent Van Gogh

Isaac Newton

Robin Williams

Winston Churchill

Edgar Allen Poe

Vivien Leigh

Jane Pauley

Bulimia or Anorexia

Richard Simmons

Karen Carpenter

Mary Kate Olsen