One in 4 adults — and nearly 1 in 10 children — experience a mental health disorder every year. While the effects of mental illness can be challenging, they don't have to be devastating. Bridge House helps individuals and families overcome the challenges of mental illness and work toward a brighter future.

If you or someone you love struggles with mental illness, you're in good company. Many well-known artists, athletes, politicians and scientists throughout history have battled psychiatric disorders. Here are just a few:

• Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States
• Virginia Woolf, renowned author, essayist and publisher
• Lionel Aldridge, pro football player for the Green Bay Packers including two Super Bowls
• Eugene O'Neill, playwright and Nobel Laureate
• Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist
• Leo Tolstoy, Russian author
• John Keats, English poet
• Tennessee Williams, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
• Vincent Van Gogh, post-Impressionist painter
• Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, astronomer & theologian
• Ernest Hemingway, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
• Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect
• Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister & Nobel Prize winner
• Vivien Leigh and Patty Duke, Academy Award-winning actors
• Jimmy Piersall, Major League outfielder and All-Star team player
• Charles Dickens, the most popular author of the Victorian era