{"id":1761,"date":"2006-02-02T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T01:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/02\/sean-astin-on-bipolar-disorder\/"},"modified":"2006-02-02T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T01:23:06","slug":"sean-astin-on-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/02\/02\/1761-sean-astin-on-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Astin on bipolar disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontSA.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Actor Sean Astin knows what bipolar disorder can do to a person. His mother, actress Patty Duke, was diagnosed as bipolar in 1982 when she was 35. This was after she&#8217;d already suffered a lifetime of inexplicable euphoric highs and rock-bottom lows that characterize bipolar lives. As she once wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;d cry, it seemed, for years at a time.&#8221; Astin was 11 years old when her tantrums and mood swings were finally diagnosed, and now he&#8217;s campaigning to raise awareness of the disorder, particularly how friends and family can help diagnose it. &#8220;Family members are often times the first to really start to notice the early symptoms of the mania,&#8221; Astin says. Astin &#8212; whose resume includes &#8220;The Goonies,&#8221; &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; and, today, &#8220;24&#8221; &#8212; spoke to amNewYork about bipolar disorder. [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/health\/am-astin0202,0,3864116.story?track=rss\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Sean Astin knows what bipolar disorder can do to a person. His mother, actress Patty Duke, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-sp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}