American - Actress | December 14, 1946 - March 29, 2016
I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.
Patty Duke
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
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I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
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I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
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I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
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I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
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I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
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I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
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I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.
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I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
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If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.
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