Ian McKellen's touching Facebook post on Phillip Seymour Hoffman (RIP)

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10. Great link!

Thank you for posting this link, which led me to Janov's website, where I've been reading and watching videos for 2 hours now. As the Mom of an actress/comic, who is married to a child therapist/comic, this was 2 hours well spent in understanding how my own life experiences in utero and after likely contributed, both good and bad, to her life and why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy didn't work for me.

I think you said it very well that "To pour that much soul into his characters had to put a toil on him. Robert Downy Jr almost bit the dust a while back but luckily didn't." My daughter is a friend/USC classmate of Susan Levy, who is one amazing woman, now his wife, and that we all feel gave him the unconditional love he always needed to finally "FEEL" himself and take control of those feelings.

It's a tough business and although Phillip Seymour Hoffman had an absent Father and a loving Mother, you have to wonder what compelled her, via her own life experiences, to become a Family Court Judge and what influence this may have had on him as a young child. Can only imagine she brought it home from work, whether she realized it or not.

It isn't $ and vanity that leads so many talented and driven people to use drugs and ultimately destroy themselves, they are just people who are different for one reason or another from an early age. They FEEL more, they need a voice, they are trying to heal themselves through their work. Sadly, few do the work they need to do to be a real person and maybe then they couldn't portray the people they do, if they had. I don't know. This instant age of reporting any scandalous news of celebrities is pretty sick.

Very curious now about Primal Therapy.