Catherine Zeta-Jones' Bipolar Disorder: Were There Clues?
By DAVID WEINERApril 14, 2011Catherine Zeta-Jones reportedly checked into Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut on April 6 for what her rep says was a brief stay to treat Bipolar II Disorder. Were there clues that the Oscar winner has been battling manic depression?
The 41-year-old star had reportedly been suffering sleepless nights and chain-smoking and drinking to cope with the stress of husband Michael Douglas' battle with throat cancer. According to Gabrielle Carlson, M.D., professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at Stony Brook University Medical Center in New York, depression is a primary characteristic of Bipolar II, along with various states of agitation or irritability, punctuated by a mild form of mania in which the person can seem unusually upbeat.
Back in June when Catherine accepted her surprise Tony Award onstage for A Little Night Music at Radio City Music Hall, she delivered an excited but rambling speech until she was played off the stage by music. Was she manic, or just pumped with adrenalin?
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