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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett cover image

Stephen Fry: “Lost, alone and I wanted to take my life”

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Is It a Bipolar Question Mark?

I saw someone with clearly huge intellectual potential. But he also had this sort of, in your own words, an addiction to stealing things. And I couldn't quite figure out why, but what I'm understanding now is because it comes back to that feeling of being an outsider and rebelling against the society that you weren't able to fit into. My parents did send me to a psychiatrist when I was 14, 15. He prescribed me something. Later I found out when I was doing a documentary about mental health and I went all the way back to my school and spoke to my old school master. He had a copy of a letter from that psychiatrist in which the psychiatrist had written bipolar question

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