Fascinating Information About Legendary Marilyn Monroe's Life

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Doctors hypothesise Marilyn's mental illness ran in her family. According to the archive, Monroe's mother and grandmother died at the same mental health hospital.
Understanding Monroe's own psychological challenges depends critically on the sad pattern of mental disease that runs across her family line. Della Monroe, her mother's mother, spent most of her adult life in and out of mental hospitals until dying in Rockhaven Sanitarium; her mother's grandmother died in an asylum. Monroe's life was long shadowed by this familial load of mental illness, which also caused ongoing anxiety about her eventual fate. Her awareness of this family history affected her attitude to mental health treatment, which resulted in her search for several kinds of therapy and treatment all her life. Her own brief visits in mental health institutions and the institutionalization of her relatives produced a terrible symmetry that tormented her profoundly. Medical records and letters from the period show that her doctors' treatment techniques were informed by their great awareness of this family background. Combining this inherited inclination to mental disease with the demands of celebrity and personal pain, Monroe battled a complicated web of psychiatric problems all her life.

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