7. Patty Duke
Patty Duke was another starlet not afraid to open up about her struggles with bipolar disorder. She penned two memoirs, Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke and A Brilliant Madness: Living With Manic-Depressive Illness, which delve heavily into her experiences with the condition.
Duke's son, actor Sean Astin, has set up the Patty Duke Mental Health Project to share her legacy and continue her work with speaking out about bipolar disorder.
“Her whole point when she wrote her book and announced it to the world was to destigmatize mental health disorders,” Astin told People magazine. “Thirty years later, it has worked. It’s not perfect now; there is a lot to do. My mom was one of the first celebrities to take that initial step. It was really worth it to her.”
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