Kara Tointon – Green glasses and sticky notes

Actress Kara Tointon reveals how she copes with dyslexia – and how her love of reading has developed.    

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Mimi O’Donnell seeks solace in theater

Following the death from a drug overdose of her life partner, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mimi O’Donnell was a mess. She withdrew from work, she immersed herself in books about grief. But now she is at the helm of a downtown theater where she and Mr. Hoffman met years ago…

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Dan Ackroyd on Asperger’s Syndrome

Dan Aykroyd talks about being diagnosed with mild Tourette syndrome and Asperger’s syndrome as a young man. 

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Howie Mandel Talks About Living with OCD

Howie Mandel  is a highly successful Canadian comedian, actor and game show host. But what many people don’t know is how much he suffers from OCD.  Here he talks about it with ABC News

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What’s behind stage fright?

Stage fright has not been heavily studied, which is strange because it is common not only among those who make their living on the stage but among the rest of us, too. In 2012, two researchers at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, Karen Dwyer and Marlina Davidson, administered a survey to 815 college students, asking them to

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Bipolar: Adam Deacon and Stephen Fry on ‘lifelong struggle’

Actor Adam Deacon talks about living with bipolar disorder with actor and fellow sufferer Stephen Fry.  The interview was first shown on the Victoria Derbyshire Show on BBC2 on August 8th. The programme research team had contacted ArtsMinds for background and they interviewed Dr Carol Chapman who is one of BAPAM’s psychology practitioners.

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