Glenn Close: Changing minds about mental illness

[@adamcarroll1975]

I SUFFER from depression and anxiety. It's so hard and I feel for everyone who has to deal with it. Good for her and her family!

[@Julieglam3]

God bless her for her advocacy. We ALL need to work to raise awareness and speak out rather than stay silent. Silence kills...

[@carolynmontibello8421]

Many thanks for this report.

[@LouiseFalt]

She is an inspiration

[@Citrusfruits50]

“I’m not going to be ignored Daaaaannn!”

[@dixieelder3203]

thank you so much Ms. Close for working to destigmatize mental illness. My husband worked onstage with you at Wm & Mary College in the 1970s ("The Seagull" etc.) Everyone knew you would be THE star out of all the people in the Drama community! My husband still has the Playbill from The Seagull upon which you wrote "Thank you, Peter, for being kind." We married in 1987. In 1995 I was diagnosed with manic depression (bipolar) but with mostly manias. I also got diagnosed with 3 types of seizures, one type (temporal lobe) which can cause hallucinations. I was also diag. with PTSD and panic attacks due to 2 rapes when I was a child and other traumas. So from age 15 I knew something was wrong with my brain. I was in AP classes but never slept. I told my father (while reading a bio' of Lord Bryon who was diag. with manic depression) "Dad, this is what I have. It's called manic depression." My father snapped: "you're not crazy, you are a poet" I'd been writing since age 4, mostly poems. Got my first 8 published at age 18. Have had over 50 poems & 8 short stories published by now (I am now 68) Some for pay, some no pay. So yes, I am creative/a poet. And I taught high school English, Drama & Journalism. Later, worked in special ed' A person can be intelligent & successful & still have a mental illness (or a combination of brain disorders). Like your sister, who is a loving person. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for you going public about your sister & about how horrible the stigma is. I lost my job when I admitted to having manic depression. Friends slowly "ghosted" me (except for the FEW 4 that remain). The breakdown made me so paranoid, I left my husband to live at a creek, near a tall tree. I'd climb up it to get messages from the moon on how to achieve world peace. I later lived in a storage unit where others on the outside of society lived: prostitutes, undocumented migrant workers, a former priest, a coke addict. All of us helped each other. On the day Jerry Garcia died, my husband & I got back together. That was our 8th year of marriage. We're now going into our 35th year of marriage. He has been a Saint helping me all the way. With the help of family/friends/good psychiatrists & good medicines, we can contribute to society & enjoy life. But if rejected by family/friends, with no doctors or meds, we sink into our own illness, become homeless, unable to work or concentrate on anything. May God Bless people like Glenn Close, who is a spokesperson for we who have brain disorders of all kinds.

[@melliecrann-gaoth4789]

Thank you for telling your story. Bi polar with mania is so hard because the treatment then can also cause depression and also you have the terrible embarrassment about remembering your behaviour. It is it so important to understand mania really well because that is the only well to catch it early. I ‘m so sorry to hear about your seizures. Great to creative talents and a family- both give solaca, joy and growth and also gives a person a way to share and serve.

[@EXP-oi7qs]

Thank You~

[@jenhasken]

One in four sounds about right. Maybe more. My sister has a bipolar diagnosis. She is amazing. It is hard to understand, but I am glad for every day she is here. My cousin has severe schizophrenia. This is all part of the human condition. Understand and love will lessen the suffering.

[@jeffreyrtaylorii]

This was illuminating!

[@creativemindplay]

hardly

[@yankeeladee02]

Thank you, Glenn Close and family. 💚💚💚 #StopTheStigma #MentalHealthAwareness

[@starther]

wow - thank you so much! This has to go viral finally!!

[@mlfeathers7527]

My dad and his sister were bipolar. Thanks for this report.

[@paulandrews298]

ML Feathers Were or are?

[@mlfeathers7527]

Paul Andrews were. They’ve both passed on.

[@paulandrews298]

ML Feathers I'm sorry to hear that. 😢

[@lindamastropietro3469]

I have Bipolar depression type all and PTSD generalized anxiety and panic disorder. I was diagnosed in my early 50s. I live minute to minute. I can’t look ahead, I can’t plan ahead.

[@dixieelder3203]

love to you

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

The mom of the first woman I fell in love with is bipolar. The second woman I fell in love with is bipolar. A family member of mine is bipolar. It would be great if the stigma of it was all gone so everyone could openly talk about it and accept it, instead of the issue being in the closet.

[@jamesdooling4139]

I wish support was this easy to come by. I am one of the preyed upon. I have no one. Fortunately, I am also fairly intelligent and know it's not a god or an angel or a demon talking to me. I do my best to ignore the outer influences, but I'm also 41 and living on the fringes of society trying to keep myself from becoming a monster. It's tough, but I'm strong. Here's hoping I can keep the monsters on the periphery until the Fates take me.

[@dixieelder3203]

I send you much love. I understand

[@melliecrann-gaoth4789]

Much compassion to you. Without a steady person or two- a family- life can be tragically tough and traumatic and all because how the chips fell for a person. No one decides to have a mental illness or be born into particular circumstances. Remember you are worthy and society land governments lets people down. And orher people can be smug and so mean. Goiod society creates a safety net. USA is a disgrace when it comes to mental health and social care.

[@matthewsuh200]

Glenn Close have to honor the Disney Legend award for the movie & TV series, played Cruella De Vil from Disney's comedy drama film 101 Dalmatians & 102 Dalmatians and the voice of Kala from Disney's adventure fantasy comedy drama film Tarzan.

[@bergfish7328]

💚👏 Thank you 🌺

[@creativemindplay]

let's talk about people we elect to public office, their mental "illness". People we watch on reality TV, and their mental "illness". and then let's talk about what that says about us and our mental health or lack thereof. would that the conversation were remotely as simple as this two word phrase makes it out to be.

[@melliecrann-gaoth4789]

Shameful is how I would describe USA mental health care.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

13 comments and I cannot see any? Why?

[@davidd6218]

Boyd W get your glasses.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

When I posted my first reply I couldn’t see any other replies at all.

[@melliecrann-gaoth4789]

She was so unstable without a mental illness per say, unhinged and woul not accept No. i was young when i saw the movie- she was like my mother- a conservate Catholic without a mental illness- a tyrant.

[@marcossalgadogarcia]

I've heard the voice mad at the actress fatal attraction before. The same voice killed Anthony the cook and Kate the purse lady .poor people they think they sick .drug cartels drugging them up. They think they schizophrenia