Carrie Fisher: “Mental illness is not all bad.”

“The manic end of is a lot of fun. I try to encourage people to envy my mania. A lot of it is just fantastic.

“Mental illness sounds so horrendous and it can be. But it’s kind of a broad term. People that are depressed have mental illness.

“A lot of what’s wrong with me is, I feel like, a bank error in my favor. It can be fantastic.

“Whenever I read about it in other books, it’s very, very heavy and awful. I was trying to get to the positive side.” (laughs) [referring to her novel The Best Awful]

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