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Apr 15, 2013 · However, a new research project based at St George's, University of London, has concluded that George III did actually suffer from mental illness after all. Using the evidence of thousands...
May 7, 2023 · Instead, Peters proposes that King George III actually suffered from recurrent mania, possibly bipolar disorder. He notes George was diagnosed at the time with was then called "manic...
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May 17, 2023 · To name just a few of his ailments, King George suffered from abdominal pain and sometimes had seizures, during which his attendants would need to restrain him by sitting on him. His urine...
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In fact, leading medical experts have come to agree over the past decade that George III almost certainly suffered from bipolar disorder. In our more enlightened age, we can...
Apr 29, 2015 · Recent evidence found when analysing George’s letters have suggested, however, that he suffered from bipolar disorder; the King’s sentences became longer, and language more colourful when he was ‘mad’: a sentence containing 400 words and just eight verbs was not unusual in some of these writings.
This review is concerned with the nature of the recurrent mental ill health of King George III (1738–1820), reinvestigation of the widely accepted belief that he suffered from acute porphyria, how this unlikely diagnosis was obtained and, in particular, why it has gained so much unwarranted support.
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Re-evaluation of George III’s clinical condition by Professor Timothy Peters and specialists at St George’s Hospital, London indicates that the king probably suffered from ‘recurrent bipolar disorder, with at least three episodes of acute mania, chronic mania and possible dementia during the last decade of his life’.
