Of the 60 artists who have won either Best Actor or Best Actress since 1992, 41 have had a mental health problem – depression, anxiety and substance abuse are the most common problems.
Psychiatrist Dr. Paul Hochmeyer, a leading expert on the mental health of celebrities, said fame has often been associated with “fear, pain, and loneliness”, and great success can lead to delusional feeling syndrome.
“The level of success that Oscar-winning celebrities have achieved is unfathomable to about 99.9 percent of the population,” Hockmeyer said. “The drive, the work, and the confluence of conditions it takes to get there are other things. That’s why, once achieved, success seems empty and deceptive. It’s An undeserved feeling.”
Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis said his severe depression was one of the reasons he decided to quit acting in 2017, at just 60 years old.
Jodie Foster, who won Best Actress for the 1992 film The Silence of the Lambs, and Emma Stone, who won the same award in 2017 for La La Land, have spoken about mental health issues.
Figures suggest that 10 per cent of the general population has a mental health problem, but that rises to 68 per cent among Oscar winners, according to research by Paracelsus Recovery Clinic, based in Switzerland and the UK, where treatment costs £72,000 (95,000). dollars) per week, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.