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Joe Pantoliano's rise to fame, battle with depression

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    Emmy winner's candid memoir on mental illness

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He of course is a familiar face in movies it on TV.

From risky business to -- good means from the matrix of The Sopranos.

Jodi Kantor Leon I was a successful and -- -- actor but behind the scenes he's in fighting a personal act that you say was -- -- -- We did it.

-- very very I mean it's important book you have a brand new book -- called a silent you want everybody get it.

I would -- -- my Great Depression mental disease recovery and my mother's an NB my mother's son congratulations Joseph.

Open -- all together let's not that easy well you know.

Yeah I was actually wants I was diagnosed and I realized that it wasn't my fault that I had a mental uneasiness -- Moody's sees.

That wasn't permanent that I could.

And when I started feeling better.

It was a natural I found out that most Americans don't know.

That in the course of our lifetime we will be dealing with.

A mental disease 75%.

Of Americans will have to deal -- it.

What I'm hoping to -- is that this book kinda -- Iran and that we start a mental hygiene.

An American schools starting in kindergarten like we do.

Physical hygiene so that kids can understand that having a mental uneasiness.

Is natural and they can talk about it right.

-- -- he -- in your book you talk all about it you know the challenges that you had grown up over across a river in Hoboken, New Jersey.

You were trapped in your own personal -- Let's get out of there there are a lot of people who are trapped in their own part I traded I traded off you know La Hoya needs for asylum is an empty room in the right kind of people so.

So I had done it from your families -- well I thought that being successful would cure my best feeling inside of me and the minute I came over to -- is in New York.

That I'd leave that behind and I wouldn't have to remember any of it.

Also I -- I -- in the inside of my mother's television set set an opportunity if -- can get inside that TV like other Italian Americans.

Who came from poverty like Frank Sinatra that that I would.

I would be secured I would feel good I was handed out -- I I will be remembered it would be evidence of my existence it did that happen.

Well it did happen but I didn't feel better that's -- And you say that you struggled in your life with all sorts of seven deadly sins are symptoms of them all the -- food vanity shopping and shoplifting yeah success even -- -- down.

All we are you know -- a victim of our environment -- in -- environment you know stealing was was honorable and the better you are out of the cooler -- war.

You know when my stepfather.

Or father.

Came out of prison.

Because he was a made man.

That raised my stock price to get in a lot of fights in fact ice ice it -- began my recovery for years ago.

So at 56 was the last time I had a physical fight ice to get into fights at least you know you're always talks in golf people have got to read this book is really powerful if she's still looking after the -- ship that he can't get around yeah Joey pants check -- his new book it's called this time.

It's called -- -- isn't likely touch -- Hollywood hot knows that it.

Our whole -- to figure out.

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