10 show business stars who officially suffer from mental disorders

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

People in creative professions are highly sensitive to external stimuli, which leads to various mental disorders. Famous musicians, singers and actors suffer from psychosis and depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and even schizophrenia. At the same time, Western stars do not hesitate to openly declare their problems, and our celebrities often consider their problem shameful.

Britney Spears

At the beginning of April 2019, the singer once again asked for the help of doctors and went to undergo treatment in a psychiatric clinic. Britney Spears suffers from bipolar disorder and was in the psychiatric ward of Los Angeles Medical Center in 2007. Then the singer ended up in the clinic due to a painful separation from her husband, and now an exacerbation of the disease has come due to health problems of Britney Spears' father, who underwent two complex operations.

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Lolita Milyavskaya

The famous performer first turned to a psychiatric clinic after her divorce from Alexander Tsekalo. At the time, she tried to dull the pain by using alcohol and drugs, but this only led to aggravation of the problems. Then the doctors had to take the singer out of severe depression for a long time. Later, Lolita Milyavskaya repeatedly turned to specialists for the treatment of a mental disorder that was associated with personal problems, stress and overwork.

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Mel Gibson

The famous actor has been struggling with manic-depressive psychosis for many years. The Hollywood star often showed unmotivated aggression, and after the divorce proceedings with Oksana Grigorieva, he turned to a psychiatrist for help. The disease requires constant intake of special drugs, but Mel Gibson often neglects the recommendations of doctors, showing sudden outbursts of anger and inability to control himself.

Viktor Sukhorukov

The actor, who became famous for his role as a killer named "Tatar" in the cult film "Brother", was treated at the Bekhterev clinic in the late 1990s. Viktor Sukhorukov ended up in a psychiatric hospital in a state of severe alcohol psychosis. The treatment was long and difficult, and after leaving the clinic, the actor promised himself never to drink alcohol again. For more than 20 years, Viktor Sukhorukov has kept this promise.

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Joanne Rowling

One of the most popular writers today believes that you can't hide your problems. That is why J. K. Rowling always spoke openly about her lingering depression and thoughts of suicide. However, it was the peculiarities of the psyche of the creator of Harry Potter that allowed her to come up with dementors who can deprive a person of his essence, feeding on bright human emotions.

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Vasily Stepanov

The actor who played Maxim Kammerer in Inhabited Island suffers from manic depression. It was his incredible popularity after filming with Fyodor Bondarchuk that played a cruel joke with Vasily Stepanov. After the "Inhabited Island" came a period of oblivion and served as a pretext for the development of the disease. At first, no one could have imagined that the actor would have such a hard time going through the period of lack of demand. He could not get out of bed for days, and his relatives constantly tried to save him from the desire to commit suicide. In April 2017, the actor fell out of a third-floor window, breaking an arm and a leg. Later, Vasily Stepanov explained his fall by an attempt to get the cat.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

The manic-depressive psychosis of the actress, according to her, was the result of the severe nervous tension that she experienced in the struggle for the health of her husband Michael Douglas. They managed to defeat her husband's cancer, but Catherine Zeta-Jones was forced to seek help from a psychiatrist. The actress believes that mental illness should be talked about publicly in order to encourage people to seek medical attention.

Irina Dubtsova

The singer, poet and composer was admitted to a psychiatric clinic in 2010 in a state of prolonged depression and neurosis. Irina Dubtsova's attempts to build her personal happiness with businessman Tigran Malyants, who at that time was still officially married, led to such a sad result. Tigran's wife managed to bring Irina Dubtsova to mental breakdown with her threats, calls and scandals. After the performer fainted several times, she turned to psychiatrists for help. Soon after discharge from the clinic, the relationship with the businessman Irina Dubtsova ended.

Angelina Jolie

One of the brightest and most beautiful actresses in Hollywood, since childhood, suffers from body dysmorphic disorder (rejection of her own appearance). The disorder led to anorexia and attempted suicide. Angelina Jolie even tried to hire a hitman, not relying on her own courage and determination. In 2018, the actress ended up in the clinic after losing consciousness caused by the next stage of losing weight.

In addition, the Hollywood star has an incredible fear of cancer (cancer phobia). After the death of her mother, Jolie removed her breasts and ovaries to eliminate the risk of cancer. An additional burden on the shoulders of the fragile actress was her desire to save the whole world, which manifests itself in irrepressible social activities. She is always eager to help someone, even to the detriment of her own interests and the well-being of loved ones. Coming from Africa, Angelina Jolie refused to eat for some time, believing that she had no right to food while the children were starving. All the phobias of the actress led to a prolonged depression that required the help of psychiatrists.

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Natalia Nazarova

The Soviet actress, who played Lyusya in the film "Beloved Woman of Mechanic Gavrilov", Vera in "An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano" and many more wonderful roles in cinema and theater, could continue her creative activity today. However, in 1989, not far from her own house, Natalya Nazarova was attacked by an unknown person, as a result of which she received a serious head injury. She had to be in the hospital for a whole year, as a blow to the head provoked the development of schizophrenia. The actress could no longer work due to her disability and has been under the supervision of doctors for almost 30 years.

According to experts, representatives of the acting profession are emotionally unstable people, with a mobile psyche, and therefore they are especially susceptible to various mental disorders. Many favorites of the public have repeatedly ended up in psychiatric hospitals, which is not always mentioned in their official biographies.