21 Celebrities That Battled Mental Illness

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12. Sinead O’Connor

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after she tried to take her own life on her 33rd birthday. She openly talked about her mental illness on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2007 and said she took antidepressants and mood stabilizers but admitted that there were really difficult days.

Though she talked openly about her disorder, Sinead later publicly announced that other doctors told her that she was definitely not bipolar. Here’s what she told the Irish Mirror:

I do not, in fact, suffer from Bi-Polar disorder and never did . . . and should never have been put on the medication . . . They are extremely debilitating drugs. Tiring to the extreme. Ironically, extremely depressing. They can cause suicidal or self-harm type thinking.’

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