Comments on: Glenn Close and her bipolar sister want to break the stigma of mental illness http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/ Stylish celebrity escapism Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tramadol http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-3601324 tramadol Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:02:54 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-3601324 Hi just thought we would explain something.. This really is twice now i’ve landed in your blog in the last 30 days trying to find totally unrelated things. Spooky or what? Hi just thought we would explain something.. This really is twice now i’ve landed in your blog in the last 30 days trying to find totally unrelated things. Spooky or what?

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]]> By: Bipolared http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-2885272 Bipolared Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:04:36 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-2885272 I applaud Glenn Close for speaking so openly and candidly about mental illness. I've had quite a ride, from the time I fell off the cliff to clawing my way back to humanity. It's a difficult life - one that is demanding and challenging just for the sake of stability. Every day is one step forward. Maybe with her and more others, more attention can be dedicated to helping people with bipolar disorder. It's been such an ugly secret that needs to be discussed.. I applaud Glenn Close for speaking so openly and candidly about mental illness. I’ve had quite a ride, from the time I fell off the cliff to clawing my way back to humanity. It’s a difficult life – one that is demanding and challenging just for the sake of stability. Every day is one step forward.

Maybe with her and more others, more attention can be dedicated to helping people with bipolar disorder. It’s been such an ugly secret that needs to be discussed..

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]]> By: Bipolar Music http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-1587503 Bipolar Music Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:14:13 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-1587503 I'm not so sure about the whole social stigma thing & I also think the whole mental disorder thing had been taken way too far by doctors in order to make some money. I'd bet money that 9 out of 10 people would be diagnosed with some kind of disorder if they actually went to see a psychologist. Not that there aren't people that are actually suffering, but there are far more exaggerated & situational cases. I’m not so sure about the whole social stigma thing & I also think the whole mental disorder thing had been taken way too far by doctors in order to make some money. I’d bet money that 9 out of 10 people would be diagnosed with some kind of disorder if they actually went to see a psychologist. Not that there aren’t people that are actually suffering, but there are far more exaggerated & situational cases.

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]]> By: Pat Fleming http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-1196580 Pat Fleming Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:20:32 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-1196580 I was so impressed when I saw the commercial with Glenn Close speaking out about mental illness. I've worked as a psychiatric social worker for over 30 years now and I've constantly said the mentally ill still have no lobby to speak out for them. I know people still believe that somehow it's the person's fault if they suffer from a mental illness and somehow they themselves are immune. WRONG I have met some wonderful people in my years and believe me neither their families nor they have done anything to deserve the illness. More people need to care and become involved so that the stigma connected to mental illness can be conquered. I was lucky because when I was 16 a friend of mine in High School talked me into going to the local psychiatric hospital as a candy striper. I did and I found my calling. I'm still there today! I believe we need to start at the High School level exposing teens to different kinds of people and educating them and maybe more kids would discover their calling like me.I wish more celeberties and politicians would become involved in this fight! I was so impressed when I saw the commercial with Glenn Close speaking out about mental illness. I’ve worked as a psychiatric social worker for over 30 years now and I’ve constantly said the mentally ill still have no lobby to speak out for them. I know people still believe that somehow it’s the person’s fault if they suffer from a mental illness and somehow they themselves are immune. WRONG I have met some wonderful people in my years and believe me neither their families nor they have done anything to deserve the illness. More people need to care and become involved so that the stigma connected to mental illness can be conquered. I was lucky because when I was 16 a friend of mine in High School talked me into going to the local psychiatric hospital as a candy striper. I did and I found my calling. I’m still there today! I believe we need to start at the High School level exposing teens to different kinds of people and educating them and maybe more kids would discover their calling like me.I wish more celeberties and politicians would become involved in this fight!

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]]> By: alesley http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-581980 alesley Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:21:05 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-581980 i love how people on here are diagnosing people that they don't know based loosely on what they "think" they know about mental illness. i wasn't aware that anyone who replied was a doctor..and if you are plz next time say so because it is stupid and presumptuous to lump weirdo's like tom cruise in with people who are actually suffering from a horrible disease for which there is no cure. I am 24 and I have Bipolar Disorder. I have the emotional stability of a roller coaster when i am with out my medication and as of now i haven't been a danger to others..just myself. and i would like to keep it that way. tom cruise is just some weirdo who has his own beliefs. granted they may be dangerous to others who need medication to stay alive..but to those people who don't need them..go for it i don't care.. i love how people on here are diagnosing people that they don’t know based loosely on what they “think” they know about mental illness. i wasn’t aware that anyone who replied was a doctor..and if you are plz next time say so because it is stupid and presumptuous to lump weirdo’s like tom cruise in with people who are actually suffering from a horrible disease for which there is no cure. I am 24 and I have Bipolar Disorder. I have the emotional stability of a roller coaster when i am with out my medication and as of now i haven’t been a danger to others..just myself. and i would like to keep it that way.

tom cruise is just some weirdo who has his own beliefs. granted they may be dangerous to others who need medication to stay alive..but to those people who don’t need them..go for it i don’t care..

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]]> By: Stephanie http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-568292 Stephanie Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:07:15 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-568292 Thank you Glenn close for shedding light on mental illness that others just don't "get". I am bipolar and know what your sister must be going through. I would rather have almost ANY physical illness than to have this curse!!! I too, know of the stigma that goes along with these conditions. When people hear I am bipolar, I notice an automatic change in how they look at me and act toward me, like they are scared of me. It's people like Tom Cruise and millions of others, that have NO idea what they are talking about with their "just snap out of it attitudes"! Especially Tom's comments about post-partam depression. I wouldn't dare act that way with anyone who has any other type of illness I don't have. You just don't know until you have walked a mile in someone elses shoes! And Tom: when was the last time YOU had post partum depression? I rest my case! Keep up the good work Ms. Close. We are really watching you in a positive light now!!!!! Thank you Glenn close for shedding light on mental illness that others just don’t “get”.

I am bipolar and know what your sister must be going through. I would rather have almost ANY physical illness than to have this curse!!!

I too, know of the stigma that goes along with these conditions.

When people hear I am bipolar, I notice an automatic change in how they look at me and act toward me, like they are scared of me.

It’s people like Tom Cruise and millions of others, that have NO idea what they are talking about with their “just snap out of it attitudes”! Especially Tom’s comments about post-partam depression. I wouldn’t dare act that way with anyone who has any other type of illness I don’t have. You just don’t know until you have walked a mile in someone elses shoes! And Tom: when was the last time YOU had post partum depression? I rest my case!

Keep up the good work Ms. Close. We are really watching you in a positive light now!!!!!

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]]> By: Marilyn Komisar http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-519699 Marilyn Komisar Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:24:32 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-519699 I grew up in the 1960's with a parent who was bi-polar in those years called manic-depression. I did not find out that my parent had this illness until I was in my 20's. I thought that my parent was happy(turned out to really be manic) 6 months of the year and depressed 6 months of the year (which I thought was just a lack of motivation...and always felt that I Never wanted to be like that. It turned out that my parent suffered from manic-depression. In those years families felt it was something to be ashamed (even my own parent) and therefore never to be talked about. My parent was so ashmed of themself that I too became ashamed of them.In those years there were few medications and electric shock therapy was the main treatment. My parent was so ashamed of having had this treatment, as well as so petrified that they would ever need it again, that that added to the stigma. Wow, is all I can say that bi-polar disorder has come out of the closet. Bravo, to Glen Close for taking a disease, like any other disease, and saying there is nothing to be ashamed about having it. I grew up in the 1960′s with a parent who was bi-polar in those years called manic-depression. I did not find out that my parent had this illness until I was in my 20′s. I thought that my parent was happy(turned out to really be manic) 6 months of the year and depressed 6 months of the year (which I thought was just a lack of motivation…and always felt that I Never wanted to be like that. It turned out that my parent suffered from manic-depression. In those years families felt it was something to be ashamed (even my own parent) and therefore never to be talked about. My parent was so ashmed of themself that I too became ashamed of them.In those years there were few medications and electric shock therapy was the main treatment. My parent was so ashamed of having had this treatment, as well as so petrified that they would ever need it again, that that added to the stigma. Wow, is all I can say that bi-polar disorder has come out of the closet. Bravo, to Glen Close for taking a disease, like any other disease, and saying there is nothing to be ashamed about having it.

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]]> By: michelle http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-494036 michelle Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:41:07 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-494036 Thank you Gia :) sometimes that is all someone needs is a little support, and to be able to relate to another person makes you feel less alone... I feel for you daughter, and I wish her the very very best... and I also admire the support that you give her. I can tell that you are a caring and non-judgemental person and there should be more people like you. Thank you :) Thank you Gia :) sometimes that is all someone needs is a little support, and to be able to relate to another person makes you feel less alone…

I feel for you daughter, and I wish her the very very best… and I also admire the support that you give her. I can tell that you are a caring and non-judgemental person and there should be more people like you.

Thank you :)

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]]> By: Gia http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-492837 Gia Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:22:35 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-492837 Barneslr...thank you for your thoughts and offer of prayers. Michelle, stick with it. If at all possible, try to make your family understand and ask their help... or friends can be a lot of help. Don't ever give up. My daughter almost did, several times. If you keep at it... find the right psychiatrist and therapist(if you have to go through several..do it), and take ALL MEDS that you are given to take religiously, you can have a better life. My daughter, too, went throught the whole routine...different jobs... start something, then stop it, struggle to get through college, even though she's intelligent..the whole thing that you have been going through. Also...find support groups in your area. They really can be a big help. Do whatever it takes...I mean it!!!! DON'T GIVE UP...EVER. YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PERSON. Barneslr…thank you for your thoughts and offer of prayers.

Michelle, stick with it. If at all possible, try to make your family understand and ask their help… or friends can be a lot of help. Don’t ever give up. My daughter almost did, several times. If you keep at it… find the right psychiatrist and therapist(if you have to go through several..do it), and take ALL MEDS that you are given to take religiously, you can have a better life.

My daughter, too, went throught the whole routine…different jobs… start something, then stop it, struggle to get through college, even though she’s intelligent..the whole thing that you have been going through.

Also…find support groups in your area. They really can be a big help.

Do whatever it takes…I mean it!!!!

DON’T GIVE UP…EVER. YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PERSON.

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]]> By: michelle http://www.celebitchy.com/76586/glen_close_and_her_bipolar_sister_want_to_break_the_stigma_of_mental_illness/#comment-492503 michelle Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:58:51 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=76586#comment-492503 Thank God for Glenn Close and brave people like her. If more celebrities used their voices for things like this it would give a lot of struggling individuals/families more hope. Watching the lives of my aunt and grandmother deteriorate before my eyes as a kid was horrible. The effect that mental illness had on them was very similar, if not worse, than things like diabetes and cancer, so I think it should be recognized just as much. I, too, have struggled a lot. At only 21 I have quit college twice, switched jobs four times just in the last two months, and I haven't talked to my family in over a year due to mental illness. So when people like Glenn Close embrace mental illness and recognize it's true struggles, it gives people like me something to hold on to.. a little hope that there just might be a solution on the way. They say people are afraid of the unkown... so inform the people and get rid of the fear,and the stigma.... so that future aunts and grandmothers and brothers and cousins and friends and neighbors don't go unnoticed because they are ashamed of what they cannot control... Anyone reading this who is suffering, please hold on and try to get help, there are people who care about what you are going through... be part of the change.. Thank God for Glenn Close and brave people like her. If more celebrities used their voices for things like this it would give a lot of struggling individuals/families more hope.

Watching the lives of my aunt and grandmother deteriorate before my eyes as a kid was horrible. The effect that mental illness had on them was very similar, if not worse, than things like diabetes and cancer, so I think it should be recognized just as much. I, too, have struggled a lot. At only 21 I have quit college twice, switched jobs four times just in the last two months, and I haven’t talked to my family in over a year due to mental illness. So when people like Glenn Close embrace mental illness and recognize it’s true struggles, it gives people like me something to hold on to.. a little hope that there just might be a solution on the way.

They say people are afraid of the unkown… so inform the people and get rid of the fear,and the stigma…. so that future aunts and grandmothers and brothers and cousins and friends and neighbors don’t go unnoticed because they are ashamed of what they cannot control…

Anyone reading this who is suffering, please hold on and try to get help, there are people who care about what you are going through… be part of the change..

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