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Patty Duke. The Academy Award-winning actress told of her bipolar disorder in her autobiography and made-for-TV movie Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness, co-authored by Gloria Hochman.
Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga has advocated for mental health both in her music and through her non-profit organization Born This Way Foundation, which she co-founded with her mother.
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Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, all of those had personality disorders. Two that definitely did have schizophrenia, Ed Gein, who I always want to point out, had a very traumatic, isolated childhood into adulthood with a very controlling mother.