Mandel’s disorder no laughing matter
“It doesn’t make any sense intellectually, but at times in my life it gets to the point where it’s insurmountable. It’s more than not being able to touch that door. It would stay with me the rest of the day and I wouldn’t be able to function or concentrate. That’s what I’ve been dealing with my whole life. It gets noisy in your head.”
It would seem Mandel hasn’t become the basket case that was Howard Hughes.
“Hughes flourished, too, until the later stages of his life,” Mandel counters. “I’m not far from there. It’s always in my mind that I could end up where he ended up. I don’t look at his story and go: Oh, that’s crazy. That’s not me. I look at it and go: That could happen. I really understand how I could get there. And I’m really not that far from there.
That’s what people don’t understand…mental health is something of a stigma… something that’s not really taken care of in much of the world. Mental health care is not nearly equal to physical health care.”
