Gabrielle Anwar is opening up about her mental health struggles.

The 54-year-old Burn Notice actress penned a personal essay published in Business Insider on Sunday (August 31).

In the essay, Gabrielle opened up about her lifelong struggle with bipolar disorder and how it’s impacted her since childhood.

“My parents didn’t have the tools to help me. Like many from their generation, they lacked the vocabulary and empathy we now have around mental health,” Gabrielle wrote in the post, saying that she experienced her first manic episode when she was around 11 years old.

“I was expelled from school and deeply ashamed. I began to realize that my reactions were disproportionate; everything was either euphoric or devastating. There was no middle ground,” Gabrielle recalled.

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