{"id":5331,"date":"2025-08-17T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/5331\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:46:07","slug":"linda-hamilton-shares-candid-mental-health-update-celebrity-news-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/5331\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Hamilton shares candid mental health update – Celebrity News – Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda Hamilton has invested “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in her mental health<\/a> journey, the action star revealed while discussing her current stability after battling bipolar disorder and depression for two decades.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old Terminator actress opened up about the financial and emotional costs of her recovery during a recent interview with PEOPLE magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I can apply the brakes because I spent years and years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to get better,” Hamilton said, describing the substantial investment<\/a> she made in professional treatment.<\/p>\n

The actress, known for her tough action-hero roles, explained that her public persona often masks the reality of her mental health.<\/p>\n

“Nobody ever thinks that I’m going to struggle. [They think] I’ll be fine \u2014 ‘It’s Linda Hamilton,'” she said during the interview about her new sci-fi film Osiris.<\/p>\n

Hamilton’s mental health struggles spanned from age 20 to 40, a period she previously described as her lost years in a 2004 AP Radio interview<\/a> when she first publicly disclosed her bipolar disorder and depression diagnoses.<\/p>\n

During the interview, she detailed experiencing severe manic episodes.<\/p>\n

“You don’t need sleep. I think I existed on four hours sleep a night for four years. Sleep doesn’t seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it’s not all great feelings. A lot of the raging that I did I think was the manic part of my disorder,” she told AP Radio.<\/p>\n

Her first husband, actor Bruce Abbott, recognized the extreme mood swings before she had a diagnosis. “My first husband [actor Bruce Abbott] said you have the most incredible joy and the most incredible sorrow that goes with it. Without giving it a name, he had pretty much summed it up for me,” she recalled.<\/p>\n

Hamilton described the manic periods as involving “the capacity for fighting, war, taking everything on, taking too much on, overachieving and then raging because my system was so depleted.”<\/p>\n

Now, Hamilton uses her experience to encourage others facing similar battles, emphasizing that recovery is possible despite the challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linda Hamilton has invested “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in her mental health journey, the action star revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[5546,18,135,1239,19,17,5544,167,5545,502,5547],"class_list":{"0":"post-5331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-bipolar-disorder","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-linda-hamilton","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mental-health-journey","17":"tag-mentalhealth","18":"tag-recovery-and-therapy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}