Sean Astin Talks About Mental Health & Patty Duke
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2018
- Patty Duke was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 35 years old. She was one of the first celebrities to talk publicly about mental illness and during her lifetime was a big advocate for mental health.
Her son, actor Sean Astin, carries on that legacy speaking about mental health and how family members and loved ones can be supportive. He also says there is hope for those who live with mental illness. He even started the Patty Duke Mental Health Project.
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God Bless Sean. We thank him and Patty for all they have done to help those suffering with Mental Illness. We miss Patty . She was a great actress and a remarkable person. Much love to Sean and Patty, who we miss so much.
Mental illness is like trauma, you never get fully healed, you just learn how to deal with it. As a family, as a support system, and most of the time, the guilt and shame are greater, especially for a mother who loves her children, because that mothers love causes her to lash out more at the ones they love and trust the most. Thank you Sean, I know all too well the hardships of dealing with undiagnosed mental illness, and it is the hardest thing to endure, however, the love causes you to never regret the hardest times you have endured, especially after those loved ones are not here with us anymore…..thank you for speaking about this.
Sean is AMAZING! I just want to hug him! I also have severe Bipolar type 1 and I truly understand what he is saying about his mother and how she acted.
I'm so glad that Sean is still advocating for this. He means so much to me for it. His mom meant so much to me for speaking out! We cannot continue to hide bipolar and other mental illnesses because of shame or the stigma that surrounds them. The knowledge about them must become as clear and common as going to your General Practitioner for a sinus infection. My momma was not diagnosed with Bipolar until I was 18 years old. It was horrible for her and for her children and her husband. None of us knew when the lows would come with depression and rage, when the highs would come with strange hysteria but I always knew that this was not my momma! And it was hard even when she was diagnosed because this person has lived most of their lives dealing with life a certain way. Medication is not enough. It takes time. I would say the hardest thing for my mom and the hardest thing for me to watch her go through was telling friends that she thought she could trust about her diagnosis. At first it was fine and they were accepting but as soon as there was a small argument, as friends will have, or a bad day they would say "Oh, she's just acting like that because of her bipolar"! This discrimination, unconscious or not, against those who suffer from bipolar and mental illness must stop. Whether we have a brain that's wired differently or not we are all human
wow he went through the most fucked up shit how is he so normal...