From Indiana's WISH TV - Channel 8 - by Debby Knox

"Patty Duke is an Academy Award winning actress and best-selling author.  She's also a person with a mental illness.  Duke was in Indianapolis Thursday night.

Patty Duke has made it her life work to talk openly about her battle, and victory over bipolar disease.

Patty Duke was sigining copies of her book at an event sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company.  But she's best known for her acting career.  She won an Oscar at a young age for the portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker.

But even then, she was battling her own demons, bipolar disease, which wasn't diagnosed until she was in her 30's.  "Once my diagnosis was made and confirmed and accepted by me, the medication that was begun in my case is lithium.  It worked," Duke said."