Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for over 30 years. Patty Duke, best known as Helen Keller in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, has died at the age of 69. After ...

Patty Duke sought to raise public awareness of mental health issues when she shared her bipolar diagnosis with the world in her 1987 memoir, Call Me Anna. But for son Sean Astin, his late mother ...

In most circles, Patty Duke may be best known for her longtime ... a ruptured intestine Tuesday morning at age 69, suffered from bipolar disorder, and she spoke openly about how it impacted ...

and the Patty crushed by depression. Welcome to bipolar disorder, and its violent mood swings. For much of her life, however, Duke had no idea what was wrong with her. Her childhood - as a child ...

Duke, who died Tuesday morning at age 69, was diagnosed with manic depression (now called bipolar disorder ... and “The Patty Duke Show,” Duke revealed revealed a much darker reality in ...

That wasn’t the case for Anna “Patty Duke” Pearce, an Oscar-winning actress ... Her book was the first memoir I read of someone who, like me, had bipolar disorder. I hadn’t heard of ...

Patty Duke spent the last years of her life talking about what it was like living with bipolar disorder. In this clip from the upcoming PBS documentary “Ride The Tiger: A Guide Through the ...

Passing away Tuesday at age 69, actress Patty Duke starred on television ... is not the be-all and end-all," Duke, who'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder a decade earlier, told Couric.

151; -- Patty Duke, Oscar-winning actress and the star ... However, privately, Duke was battling bipolar disorder, for which she was diagnosed in 1982. "It's not a giant thrill to hear someone ...

Actress Patty Duke died on Tuesday at age 69 ... Eventually, after she was diagnosed with manic depression/bipolar disorder, Duke told all in her 1987 memoir. Duke not only came forward, she ...

It happened this past week ... the passing of actress Patty Duke. Born Anna Marie Duke in the New York City borough of Queens, she grew up in a troubled home. Under the stage name Patty Duke, she ...