Most widely known for the famous sentence “I went to a Chinese-German restaurant. The food is great, but an hour later you’re hungry for power”, and most well-remembered by his talk show on ABC from 1969 to 1974, Richard Alva “Dick” Cavett, this former famous American television talk show host known for his conversational style and in-depth discussion of issues, appeared on a regular basis on nationally-broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s. Cavett has been nominated for 11 Emmy Awards and has won three. He gets the celebrity, and he also gets bipolar disorder. He is one out of many of the famous people with bipolar disorder.

His mental illness was reported by himself. He has told the public about his illness for many times. Bipolar disorder symptom first occurred to him when he is a freshman in Yale. And later he became the subject of a 1993 video called A Patient’s Perspective. And his breach of contract with a nationally syndicated radio program, also known as The Dick Cavett Show, by failing to appear in the show, which was sued by the producer, also due to a manic-depressive episode. Later Cavett underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat his mental disease. In 1992, People quoted his saying: “In my case, ECT was miraculous. My wife was dubious, but when she came into my room afterward, I sat up and said, ‘Look who’s back among the living.’ It was like a magic wand.”