The sad letter Marilyn Monroe sent to her psychiatrist
The more the taboo that surrounds mental health disintegrates, the more I think of poor Marilyn Monroe. In 1961, as a recently divorced and mentally exhausted young woman, she was committed to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York. Back then, spending time in a psychiatric ward could destroy a career. It was something to fear and something to hide. And for Marilyn, whose mother long struggled with mental illness, it was her biggest fear. During her time on the ward, she wrote the following letter to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson: Just now when I looked out the...
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