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They also tend to offer a range of benefits as opposed to drugs which tend to target a specific issue.

There’re safe, natural and effective means for fighting stress, depression, dementia and identical mental ailments.

You have to be willing and motivated to use them and follow through with them to better mental health. Ability to through these methods was tested and retested. Fisher certainly wasn’t the first writer to spin her own pain into cathartic art -but she was among the first female celebrities to do it with such enthusiastic humor about pics typically viewed as both taboo and unfeminine.

They write bestsellers.

Fisher embraced her illnesses -bipolar disorder, alcoholism, drug addiction, and serious body dysmorphia problems -in a way that helped normalize them. They have daughters who adore them, and they adopt therapy dogs that prompt onlookers to spontaneously lose their minds with glee. That said, she proved that even whip smart, ‘cool as hell’, impossibly funny women can end up doing a stint or two in the psych ward. They have fun.

Whenever airing them, and ultimately trudging onward, she was a striking model of a flawless woman committed to conquering her demons simply by accepting them.

a ‘welldocumented’ addict -she admitted to dabbling with quite a few drugs, including cocaine on the set of The Empire Strikes Back -Fisher was the daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, a glamorous product of Hollywood ‘inbreeding’, as she put it.

Whenever recounting a ‘decades long’ addiction in his 1999 memoir, Been There, Done That, her father had his own struggles. While checking herself into a ’30day’ rehab after a near fatal overdose, diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her midtwenties, Fisher refused to accept the diagnosis until she got sober at 28. I’ll stay she wrote. On p of this, I’m not gonna like it.

That said, in 12 step groups she came to find solace in the stories of others, though she didn’t enjoy the meetings at first. Furthermore, she poked fun at both recovery culture and her own youthful resistance to it in her first novel, 1987’s ‘semi autobiographical’ Postcards from the Edge, that chronicles the rehab stay and personal relationships of a ’30 year old’ narrator named Suzanne Vale.

Fisher remained abstinent from drugs and alcohol for much of her life, though she confessed to a few slips, just after that stint.

With lows that were sometimes difficult to treat, her bipolar disorder was a continual roller coaster.

Her 2008 memoir Wishful Drinking covers everything from Fisher’s bizarre Hollywood childhood, to her first marriage to Paul Simon, to anecdotes like waking up to find a friend dead in bed beside her. Most fascinating facts of that book is Fisher’s writing about why she opted to try electroconvulsive therapy, a still stigmatized though highly effective treatment for depression. Actually, in her four novels, three memoirs and the bulk of her work centers on addiction, recovery, mental illness, fraught family relationships and the grime and glamour of a sexist Hollywood. It was Fisher’s willingness to tackle difficult subjects with wit and transparency that helped transform her into a bona fide role model, especially for people afflicted with mental illness. She stayed in the public eye largely because of her deft, vulnerable and often hilarious writing. May have risen to fame after her ‘star making’ 1977 turn as Princess Leia in Star Wars.