Pop singer Mariah Carey is battling bipolar disorder. In an interview in People magazine the star reveals that for years she didn’t want to believe the diagnosis but is now ready to share.
She tells the celebrity magazine: “I lived in denial and isolation and in constant fear someone would expose me. It was too heavy a burden to carry and I simply couldn’t do that anymore.”
Carey says she was first diagnosed in 2001 around the time of the release of her critically panned movie “Glitter.”
She was hospitalized following an emotional and physical breakdown.
In the following years she made herself believe that her mood swings were caused of a severe sleep disorder, but “instead of counting sheep I was constantly working and working, eventually hitting a wall.”
Carey is suffering from bipolar II form of the disorder, marked by less severe mood swings between depression and hyperactivity.
The singer comes forward after a roller-coaster few years that includes her divorce from comedian Nick Cannon, and a short-lived engagement to Australian billionaire James Packer.
Carey says she has recently started receiving treatment and is working on a new album that is due out later this year.
