Watch: Why Millie Bobbie Brown and David Harbour Both Missed Stranger Things Event in NYCDavid Harbour is sharing how he keeps his mental health right side up. Indeed, the Stranger Things star-who has been open about his experience with bipolar disorder-recently detailed how psychotherapy positively impacted his mental health. "I have been in therapy since I got sober in 1999," David told Future of Personal Health in a recent interview. "When I quit drinking, it forced me to confront a lot of demons that rose to the surface. I was very poor. However, I still was able to work once a week with a [Clinical Social Worker] who put me on a sliding scale." But it wasn't until the 50-year-old discovered psychotherapy-which includes multiple techniques that aim to help patients identify and change unhealthy thought patterns, according to the Cleveland Clinic-that he began to make progress. He added, "Only recently have I started intense psychotherapy, and it has made a world of difference in my treatment." And he credits not only the treatment alone, but solid medical professionals for his progress.readLily Allen Describes Daughters' Relationship With Ex David Harbour After Their Breakup"I have not had a manic flare-up since I started psychoanalysis with a good therapist," he explained. "Medication alone is only half the battle. There is not a cure-all formula, there is only hard individual work." The Hellboy actor-who separated from estranged wife Lily Allen in February 2025-also opened up about what his previous manic episodes felt like. "Thought becomes disordered and chaotic," he explained. "Things that have no meaning became meaningful. Names, numbers and colors acquire a twisted symbolism. There is a fundamental narcissism at the bottom of it all that makes me think I am the center of all things, for good or for ill."Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesDavid continued, "My manic episodes are, of course, a manifestation of my own particular psychopathy. They all share those traits, but each episode has been linked to certain fixations I had at the time." And although the Emmy nominee has found a way to support his mental health needs, he wants others to know that the road to recovery is bumpy, but worth it. "I wanted folks to know that although I am living my dreams now, this is not the way it's always been," he shared. "There might be a mother of a child recently diagnosed with a mental illness out there who worried that her child would be an outcast. I wanted to speak to her and to the millions that know and love folks who are suffering." For more stars who have opened up about their mental health struggles, keep reading...
Franklin Sheard/Fad Media Group/ShutterstockGucci ManeThe rapper (real name Radric Davis) revealed in his October 2025 book Episodes: The Diary of a Recovering Mad Man that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which prompted a mental health episode in 2020. "After that, I was like, 'Man, I got to really just hold myself accountable and take care of my health,'" he said on an episode of The Breakfast Club. "I don't never want to have an episode again. I'm gonna see a therapist, [even] if I have to take medicine." In addition to his hope that his vulnerability would help others in need, Gucci Mane said that his kids Ice Davis and Iceland Ka'oir Davis with wife Keyshia Ka'Oir inspired him to seek help amid his episode. "My wife was pregnant with my little boy," he continued. "I don't want to raise a family and then my mental health [is] gone. What if I have an episode I can't come back from? So, I just started doing the work and started seeking help."Sansho Scott/BFA.com/ShutterstockPenn BadgleyThe Gossip Girl alum detailed his experience as a child actor with what he described as "body dysmorphia." "I know that I hated my body," Penn told The Guardian in April 2025, "and simply wanted a different one." In response to the weight he gained following his parents' divorce, he added, "There was just a period where, coming out of depression and isolation, I was jumping wilfully into, but also being thrust into, this world where the more conventionally beautiful I seemed, the more successful I might be, the more value I might have." Despite the mental struggles, though, Penn credited his ability to persist to his spirituality. "That is what allowed me to persevere through the disillusionment, all the things I'd been grappling with," he explained, "and then come back to it all, but with hopefully some kind of inner transformation." John Salangsang/ShutterstockEliza CoupeThe Scrubs alum has been vocal about her past difficult relationship with food. "Some may call it an eating disorder, I just call it my life," she said on the The Funny Thing Is podcast. "My drug of choice was always food. I did crazy s--t with it." She added, "I would over-exercise, and there was a sprinkle of bulimia in there." Though she has confessed her struggles with her diet, she has also shared her progre