![]() And so I think it’s really an excellent tool for talking about mental health, but I think the executives are afraid. ![]() Because if you laugh, you have to let down your guard. “And I’ve seen through my own work that humor is such a good way into people. “The biggest thing I see is there is such a deep stigma, still, towards anxiety and depression, towards any mental health issues within Hollywood,” she says. While she praises Taylor Tomlinson as one of “a limited number of comedians speaking out loud about it,” Schuster says both comedy and conversations in Hollywood addressing mental health remain few and far between. “I felt full-body sick and for the first time ever I was forced to pull over and face the problem.” “I could see my hands but they didn’t feel like my hands, and it looked like they were floating above the steering wheel,” she recalls. One night while she was driving, she experienced a life-threatening dissociative episode. The tome opens by bringing readers right into Schuster’s rock bottom. ![]()
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