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Celebrities with Mental Illness

Written by Emily Lapkin and Medically Reviewed by Scott Pearlman, M.D.

Legendary Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder as an adult, had tried to kill himself many times before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 27. One of Nirvana's best known songs is "Lithium."