Actress Mariel Hemingway has opened up about her family’s curse of mental illness and suicide in an eye-opening documentary. WARNING: confrontation
Actress and author Mariel Hemingway has opened up about her family’s history of suicide and her own battle with mental health in a powerful new documentary.
The granddaughter of novelist Ernest Hemingway appeared in The science of happines, available to stream on Flash, where he spoke about the “curse” of his family.
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Dubbed by the media as “Hemingway’s curse,” the family has a history of mental illness and suicide.
The Manhattan star lived in fear of having the same problems as other family members. During her darkest hours, Mariel had thoughts of wanting to end it all.
“I know this is a selfish act, but I really don’t think I want to be here. I just don’t think it’s valuable. I don’t feel,” said the Oscar nominee in the report.
“I was so out of my mind looking for something bigger, something that will save me, and being in that kind of desperate place of not knowing what to do was kind of a gift.
“It was such a dark time in my life. And even when I think about my children, it’s very difficult because I love my children and you love your children when you have dark periods.
“Honestly, you think there’s no real reason why you’re close enough to be around if you can’t get out of this because I don’t know how.”
The superman IV The actress said that her biggest fear was not being around and leaving her children. He had to embrace his dark thoughts.
“I think it’s about acknowledging that you have dark thoughts and saying, ‘Hey, I’m human, I have dark thoughts,’ and the moment you do, you let them go,” she said.
“And then you’re in a place of Oh, when you let go of the darkness. What do you have left? You have your light, your joy, your happiness.”
The science of happines explore the latest understanding of neuroscience as researchers crack the code to happiness.
According to author of The happiness project Gretchen Rubin, research suggests that about 50 percent of happiness is genetically determined.
“So some people are born more naturally optimistic, and some people are a little bit more pessimistic, and they just come into the world that way,” he said.
“So about 10 to 20% is something called life circumstances. It’s things like age, income, health, marital status, occupation and everything else is highly influenced by the way we think and act.
“I think people have a natural range of happiness.
“So maybe a person is seven to ten, and they’re pretty happy and then a person is more like four to seven, so they’re more in the middle.
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