Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher, best known as Princess Leia in Star Wars, has suffered from manic depression since age 15. After a 1985 overdose, she spent 37 days in rehab, where she was treated for an addiction to the prescription barbiturate Percodan. Talking and writing herself through her manic episodes, often staying up all night to do so, Fisher relies on comic relief to get through her depressions. Combined with medicine and therapy, Fisher's coping skills have allowed her to focus on her work; she is currently developing a TV series and two movies, and is writing a fourth novel.