Linda Hamilton
Terminator actress Linda Hamilton feels as though she had “lost years” before she was put on medication to help her get over the illness: ”I would say 20 full years of symptoms, not counting my childhood. From 20 to 40. I call them my lost years. About 10 years ago, when I really was crashing and burning, had spent many years, you know, not only looking for the answers but sort of self-medicating with drugs and alcohol as well, and was struggling to keep my marriages intact. It was at that point that someone wouldn’t let me out of his office. He said, ‘You are so seriously bipolar. You should not leave this office without me calling your primary physician and we need to get you on medicine.’”
Disney actress Demi Lovato recently completed a stint in rehab for issues such as self-harming and an eating disorder. She says that she also found out that she has bipolar disorder while she was being treated: ”I had no idea that I was even bipolar until I went into treatment.”
