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Mania among actors
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What experts have said about Mania among actors
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About thirty percent of studied eminent actors had manic episodes or full-blown mania.
“for the people in theater, the actors, even though the overall occurrence of depression and mania is lower than that in poets, the fraction of those individuals that have mania is exceedingly high. It's about 30% of those that they looked at who are actors, have manic episodes or have full blown mania.”
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