Anna Marie Duke is also known as Patty Duke, who was an actress that has been featured in many movies some of them were “The Miracle Worker”, and “A Killer among Friends”. Being an actress in movies and TV shows takes a lot of commitment. Patty Duke started acting at the age of six years old and growing up at such a young age took a big toll on her physically and mentally. In the late 1950s, her mangers spoke to Patty’s mother and asked to have full custody of her and her acting career. Her mother agreed with the custody because she knew John and Ethel Ross could succeed more for Patty than her mother could. Later on that year Patty Duke and her mangers moved into their new place where Patty felt very depressed because the most important person in her life was her mother who gave her up. Recently after changing her name Ethel Ross told her “Anna Marie is dead now, your Patty now”. (Duke, Patty, and Kenneth Turan 1987) At such a young age, Patty Duke was unhappy that to the point the Ross’s were obsessed with Patty’s fame and fortune that they were controlling every aspect of her life. When it came to the interviews Patty Duke’s mangers were telling her want to say and even to her own mother. Patty Duke’s managers told her she could stay in the …show more content…
bathroom for ten minutes and not a minute longer. Her mangers began to give Anna alcohol and prescription drugs as well, which was illegal and the drugs that were giving her were mostly antipsychotic medicines. Even though her managers were so irrational during that time they sexually abused Patty. In 1982 Anna Marie Duke suffered from depression, panic attacks, and hallucinations often. In her mid-thirties Patty was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder and with that disorder it states that bipolar disorder usually emerges from a person’s childhood experience. Patty Duke had a feeling that something was wrong and that she was getting tired of suffering from this disorder. Usually there are not many celebrities in today's generation that will come out clean and tell the world that they are suffering from a mental illness, but she was brave enough to tell the public. A lady from “a life script” interviewed Patty Duke, while interviewing Patty explains why revealing her secret to the public was so important to her and how it impacted her. Patty Duke responds back saying” It was a passion that grew from remembering those months when I stayed in bed and cried, sobbed and whined.” (Cartel. M. 2013) As brave as she was, Patty Duke had the courage to tell the world about her illness and to explain that there is a cure that others can get as well.
During those events while she was dealing with bipolar she wrote two books about how dealing with depression changed her life for the better and how getting the right help and treatment is the right decision. Patty Duke did not want to fear anymore this is why she opens up to her fans to let them know and other reporters. Sadly, Patty Duke died on March 29, 2016 passed away from Sepsis. Many of us will look up to Ms. Patty Duke as an icon of what she has been through from a young age to now knowing that no one should be afraid to ask help and should open up to the
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