a talented writer, fisher 1987 book, edge postcards hit the New York Times bestseller list and won the Los Angeles Pen award for the best first romance; She has published three bestsellers ever since. More recently, Fisher turned his memoir book, drinking on a woman's move, as well as a special HBO. Fisher took the time to sit with the webmd the magazine to answer questions about his experiences with addiction and bipolar disorder, his writing career and as the character of the princess read will be with her forever.
The hit Broadway show and more sold memoir, Wishful drink, is now a special HBO airing in November. What has been harder: living, writing, performing or watching it?
Dr Fisher Weight Loss - 20 Questions for Carrie Fisher
Living this. I have not watched this yet. I do not like watching me because I'm overweight. I'm a super-shareer superperson. But I am not as immature or vain as to think it is worse than living it. So living!
You are hilariously frank about your misadventures: the pills, men, as well as growing a Brad and Jen celebrer-u-spawn of your day, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. If you could change any of this, would you?
I always think these types of questions are strange. It is implausible; It's not an option! Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that are not so challenging ... the only repentance [I have with] my difficulties is to make my daughter go through them.
You were born in the reality of celebrity, then married and divorced the legend of the song Paul Simon. And you are also an icon, famous for your star, like an intergalactic princess. Was it difficult to go through the infinite space of Star Wars?
I already went through this? I did not know I had it! I'm a princess read, no matter what. If I were trying to get a good table, I would not say I wrote postcards [from the edge, his first best selling romance]. Or, if I'm trying to get someone to take my check and I do not have id, I would not say, "Did you see Harry gathered Sally?" Princess Read will be on my tombstone.
Actor, writer, funny lady, bipolar disorder. Is it disturbing, strengthening or a little of both to be considered a child poster for this condition?
Well, I hope to get the center of psychology today. It's a combination of everything. It was out there, anyway; I wanted my version of her out there. Now, it looks like every show, I see that there is always someone bipolar! It is passing through the vernacular as "May the force be with you." But I define, instead of setting me.
You were officially diagnosed at age 29, after being informed that it was an alcoholic addict and drugs. Do your addictions mask bipolar behaviors?
The first time they said the bipolar word for me was when I was 24 years old. Diagnosis when I accepted this? I was 29 years old. But I was still loaded [then]; If you are in drugs, you look bipolar anyway.
and once you were only sober, these behaviors immediately increased?
Everyone I came to rehab, we left, going to meetings in the first year. Everyone calmed down; I went in the other direction. I had a sober year and I was very crazy. I thought once I was diagnosed [as] an alcoholic, and that was the problem, that was it. Well, yes, that was part of it. But it was the solution, not the problem.
Without the leveling effect of the medication: Are you more manic or depressive?
mainly mania. When I got older, depression became more of a problem. Mania is not so unpleasant, but ... it's a rotation of the display, you do not know what you can. He turned into what they call stirred depression. I would be very impatient. I was going much faster than anything around me, and dropped me crazy. You feel out of step with the world.
Are there still a stigma attached to mental illness and seeking help for this? Do we have a society made advances in this arena?
It is evident that there are still stigma, especially when it comes to shock treatment [that Fisher experienced and openly discusses in his memories]. But it's getting better. I think there is more understanding now than there was, depending on what part of the country you are, or that part of the world.
You are a mother to Billie, now 18. Do you embarrass yourself, she embarrasses you, or are you the rare mother-daughter team that joins, never horrified by the other?
I embarrass you! I inspire a lot of eye-bearing. I have a manic personality. I do not get my age for any stretch. I am not a master of the appropriate.
What parent tips did you steal from your mother, and which one do you kick for the curb?
My mother worked a lot. I rocked in the other direction and was about probably too much. My mother, she loved us and demonstrated it. Considering that my father may have loved ourselves, but he did not demonstrate. What I learned over a life is that love is an action ... So I grew up feeling loved on one side and not from the other, who did not make me for the most confident of the people ... Billie was shown love On both sides and it's an incredible difference.
Is essential humor for good health? How often do you laugh belly?
Yes! I laughed a lot, actually. Quite. I got to an age where I like my life. I spent enough time struggling with this and at the moment lives on one side of the magnifying glass; I stay on the side to do great things look small. I enjoy and have many good friends, good relationships. You learn to get there. Having passed through many things I passed - I do not want to do these things any more. I take better care I can. I do the best imitation of maturity that I can gather.
What is your culprit - pleasure, high-carbohydrate, forget it-diet-i-just-n't-care-heatse more escape?
I like peanut butter boats to the point where they should have a support group for me.
How do you act for this after?
Well, I do not have a problem that exercises if I'm staying in one place. But the last two years I have traveled a lot, which makes it harder to keep. I did regularly exercise for 14 years. I started back when I was in my first psychiatric hospital. But lately travel and work have made difficult exercises.
If you were stuck in a hospital room for a month and had to share rooms confined with any of the story, who would it be?[the poet] Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was also a depressed manic.
You are a renowned Hollywood script medical. What do you need to cure bad dialogue?
Make the smarter women and the love scenes better. Of the five senses, which values more, and why?
Listen or see. I like listening to music. I like to read.
Your TV work is so ruthlessly funny. You were fantastic during your bit beak in HBO education this season like a Nasty Hollywood blogger, and you were named for an Emmy in 2008 for the portrait of the Rosemary Writer Howard at 30 Rock. Will any of these characters be making a return to the small screen soon?
When I was small, I did not want to be an actress. I can do this, but my personality always comes with me. I'm not an artist like Meryl [Streep, Fisher's intimate friend] or Cate Blanchett, people who disappear into their papers and express their art. This is not what I do. I am a writer and ends later in life, an artist. I am a person more than one person. I am designed more to the public than private.
You appeared at the Orpheum Theater, here at L.A., in a tribute studded from stars to John Lennon to celebrate what would have been his 70th anniversary. How did you get involved?
Actually, I'm very close to Sean, whom I met my Stepson Harper Simon. Sean lived in my house for a long time. Through Sean I became friendly with Yoko. We spent the New Year and Christmas with her last year because I was working in New York [Making Wishful drinking on Broadway].
Why do you think we human beings that we need to be entertained?To distract them from pain or boredom - the last I've ever heard describe as "unintinsistic hostility" - and to take your own difficulties.
On that note, what's next to Carrie Fisher? Other Memories or Best-Seller Romance? The stage, the screen, the HBO?
I'm finishing another book [your second anecdotal memo]. I adapted my romance the best horrible for the lifetime network with Meg Ryan; My good friend Bruce Cohen produced. And I'm doing my show below.
