Mentally ill Celebrity

An increasing number of celebrities are not shy to tell the press about their mental disorder and a tendency to depression.

Popular British newspaper The Independent has gathered evidence of 31 representatives of cinema, show business and sports. They told how hard it is to cope with the state of depression and helplessness, how long can last depression and how it can be called.

Doctors define depression as a state of depression, depressed, gloomy, depressed mood, weakness and poor physical well-being, coupled with the difficulty of thinking, decreased activity and initiative.

Recall that scientists have recently succeeded in establishing the gene responsible for susceptibility to depression. As the researchers hoped, the results of the team of scientists from the University of California, perhaps in the future will help to create new approaches to treatment of depression. According to recent data, depression affects about 2 million Americans.

In people prone to depression, the disease appears mainly in the off-season – spring and autumn. If mild depression is associated with a prolonged winter, then the man enough to take a course of vitamins, exercise, find a kind of hobby.

If the mood of pessimism and the deterioration is accompanied by disturbed sleep, appetite and other serious symptoms, you should consult your doctor and undergo treatment.

To overcome severe depression often can only comprehensive measures, including changing diets and lifestyles, as well as antidepressants.

In the period of depression in humans is deteriorating mood, there is apathy, pessimism, self-esteem drops, he can not in the normal rhythm of doing their job.

Many countries have begun to treat depression with the help of light, because it appeared the theory that it arises due to a shortage.

That’s what the stars say about depression and mental disorders:

SINGER, SINGER, MUSICIAN

1. George Michael, singer

“Twelve years of fear, depression and other abominations. As if I was on some sort of curse. I could not believe that God will bring me all at once.”

2. Kylie Minogue, singer

“First you so cool, and then all of a sudden end. This is sufficient cause for uncertainty and depression. I usually started to cry.”

3. Keisha Buchanan, singer

“With depression, you can sign in and out of this state, so it is not clear, it has already passed or not. Sometimes, I began to cry without reason.

4. Ben Moody, musician

“I was in a terrible depression, I felt like a complete failure as a leader of the group as a professional, as a man.”

5. Melanie C, former Spice Girls singer

“There always remains the fear that the depression may return, but I try to do everything correctly. I try to sleep enough, because I know that sleep is needed to operate normally, and I have to eat right and exercise.”

6. Robbie Williams, singer

“Depression is not something that is meaningful, it is not something that:” Woe is me! “. This is a severe flu, which has you all day, and it can not be cured.

7. Sinead O’Connor, singer

“I developed a manic-depressive psychosis. The main symptom was always sounding in my head voice that told me to kill myself.”

ATHLETES

1. Paul Gascoigne, footballer

“Everywhere you look, life seemed to me full of problems, and they all piled up and accumulated. No hope that anything will change for the better.”

2. Frank Bruno, former boxer

“It’s like a boiling kettle. If this was a kettle, you have to just turn off, you know what I mean?” I wanted to make a hole in his head that came out par. Boiling reached such a point, and bursting pressure so that I no longer could cope with it.

3. Neil Lennon, soccer

“You feel as if you walk down a long dark corridor, and you do not know when there will be light.”

Anchorman

1. Russell Grant, presenter

“This is a maze of chaos. Sometimes it goes so far that you have all the same, you’re alive or dead.”

2. Trisha Goddard, TV presenter

“Before me stood a threat that I take away the children, when I needed to spend five weeks in a psychiatric hospital. There is a kind of depression – the depression of a smiling man. Usually when these people finally break, it’s just something terrible – it was just my case. ”

3. Melinda Messenger, model and TV presenter

“I had suicidal tendencies. I could not stop crying. I remember thinking:” Would not it be nice if the car accident happened and I was crushed to death. ”

4. Ruby Wax, TV presenter

“Depression is very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I spoke on television, I was very fun, it is impossible to imitate. Depression comes like the plague.”

5. Gail Porter, TV presenter

“It’s awful, awful, awful. It took a half years before I learned that I had postpartum depression.”

6. Lord Bragg, presenter, writer and president of the British Association for Mental Health Mind

“At times I feel that my mind kind of crap – since it appeared there, have to live with it. It was quite a serious disease that has made me miserable and made me afraid.”

Actors, actresses, Directed

1. Uma Thurman, actress

“No one seemed to be no longer any prospects. It was a difficult time. But we deal with it.”

2. Jack Dee, comedian

“Depression – is something that has always figured in my life, but now I have learned to cope with it. It is a pity that this has not happened many years ago, because it really eased my existence.”

3. Ben Stiller, actor

“I was not a carefree guy. I think it’s called bipolar manic depression. The history of the disease in my family is full of such things.”

4. Carrie Fisher, actress

“Mania starts merrily, when several consecutive days, not sleeping, having fun society of his brain that turns into a different computer that shows you round the clock channel 24 on you.” After some time, the real nightmare begins. ”

5. Jim Carrey, actor

“I am a long time sitting on Prozac. It may be, at some point, he brought me out of the corkscrew, but some people take him all his life.”

6. Linda Hamilton, actress

“The bad times were just awful. It’s like you fall into the hatch and you can not lift the lid and get out.”

7. Denise Uelch, actress

“I lost all sense of reality. In fact, I had a nervous breakdown.”

8. Winona Ryder, actress

“There are good days and bad days, and depression – is something that is always with you.”

9. Sarah Lancashire, actress

“From 20 to 30, I had lost years. It is a cruel illness, because you do not see and can not both be hidden.”

10. Richard Dreyfuss, actor

“I told the doctor:” Examine me, with me must be that something is not right, since I myself am well.