Hamilton Thanks Doctor For Bipolar Help

Celebrity bipolar sufferer [Linda Hamilton](https://contactmusic.6lgx.com/linda-hamilton) has her family doctor to thank for balancing out her erratic moodswings after he spotted manic depression as she played a schizophrenic in a movie.

THE TERMINATOR star knew she was mixed up as she struggled to juggle her career and family life after splitting from director husband [James Cameron](https://contactmusic.6lgx.com/james-cameron), but she had no idea she was a manic depressive.

She recalls, "I had just left Jim and moved out of Jim's house with my young baby, so I had two young children and I was getting ready to play a multiple personality in a film.

"We had 10 nannies - one sort of more awful than the next. Most of them quit. After losing the 10th nanny and getting ready to play this part in a movie - and I was having a terrible postpartum depression with my second child - I just was a mess.

"My family physician had seen a lot of the evidence of the strain what I was going through and he saw that I was in trouble. It all broke at about that time."

Her doctor prescribed her anti-depressant Prozac, and Hamilton has never looked back.

18/11/2004 08:59