Brad Pitt despression: other stars with condition who went public

Angelina Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt arrive for the Gala Premier of
his film ‘Money Ball’ at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto,
on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011(Picture: AP)

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Last year Catherine Zeta Jones disclosed that she sought treatment for manic
depression after struggling to cope with the stress of husband Michael
Douglas’s battle with throat cancer. The 41-year-old Welsh actor checked
into a £770-a-day clinic in Connecticut for five days earlier this month.
Her publicist Cece Yorke said: “After dealing with the stress of the past
year, Catherine made the decision to check in to a mental health facility
for a brief stay to treat her Bipolar II Disorder. She’s feeling great and
looking forward to starting work this week on her two upcoming films. Bipolar
disorder is the technical term for manic depression, and involves wild mood
swings from high to low, though in Bipolar II the “up” moods never reach
full mania. Previously, Zeta-Jones had described her bouts with depression,
telling the Sunday Times: “I’m lucky … but that’s not to say I don’t
get down on myself … I don’t just bring myself down, I bring everyone
around me down. It’s like a dark cloud, ‘Uh-oh, here we go,’ and I have to
snap out of it.”

Actor Michael Douglas, center, poses with actress Elle Fanning, left, and
his wife actress Catherine Zeta-Jones (Picture: AP)

Kylie Minogue

The Australian pop singer became depressed after being diagnosed with breast
cancer in 2005. The Grammy winner abruptly canceled her Showgirl concert
tour to make time for surgery and chemotherapy, a break from work that
plunged her into a depression. Minogue said she struggled with the
perception that she’d “never be normal again,” she said in 2007.
Gradually, she came to realise that breast cancer would change her life.”I
learned that you never go back to a normal state, instead you have to create
a new normal state. I have to accept my life for its triumphs and its other
sides, take the good with the bad. “I experienced a world of illness and
positive attitudes. These experiences contributed to making me a more mature
person.”

Kylie Minogue and Delta Goodrem arrive at the Australian 2011 ARIA Awards
at Allphones Arena in Sydney (Picture: GETTY IMAGES)

Anne Hathaway, actress

The Devil Wears Prada admitted that she she’d suffered from depression and
anxiety as a teenager. In an interview with Tattle magazine in 2007 she
admitted that she struggled to find herself before she became a star with
the “The Princess Diaries”. She refused medication during that
time but managed to work through her anguish. “I said to Mom the other
day, ‘Do you remember that girl? She has now gone, gone to sleep. She has
said her piece and she is gone … I am sorry she was hurting for so long.
It’s all so negatively narcissistic to be so consumed with self.'” Anne
Hathaway at the Princess Grace Awards Gala (Picture: GETTY IMAGES):

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