Are mentally ill celebrities obligated to share?
I always have a weird reaction to hearing about a celebrity who is struggling with mental illness. I feel pity and empathy, but I also feel something akin to satisfaction. As I said, its weird, at least on the surface.
The satisfaction is partly due, I think, to the knowledge that Im not alone in my fight with depression. Not that I thought I was, but since we all feel that we “know” celebrities to some extent through media coverage, its more like finding out a friend or acquaintance is dealing with it rather than just seeing impersonal statistics of how many people have depression or another mental illness.