and joining me in the chair is glenn close, and her nephew. welcome. thank you. the full family ensemble. that s right. let s talk mental illness. i ve been doing stuff on my show about the gun control campaign. so many of these incidents have been linked to a form of mental illness. and the cry comes america just doesn t deal with this issue properly enough. is that a charge with which you would find the country guilty? yes, it is. i think for just basically speaking, there is not enough there aren t enough programs for early intervention, there aren t enough programs on a grass roots level to help people who need help, who know they need help. and there s not enough things to stop stigma so that people will actually seek help and know where to go. jesse, you went to glenn and
and it wasn t until well, kay was diagnosed before jess and that started kind of sinking in but it wasn t until jesse came and said to my face i can t stop thinking of killing myself that i realized that she would was in a life and death struggle. it s a terrifying thing to hear from a sibling. it is. it must have shocked you to the core. it did shock me to the core and made me ashamed i wasn t more in tune with what my own sibling had been going through. jesse, as glenn s sister, suddenly you re going through this hell. you ve been going through it for quite some time and not knowing what it was. you were eventually diagnosed with bipolar condition. for those who have no idea what a bipolar condition is, what is the simple, layman s way of describing it? you have very, very low lows, depression, it used to be called manic depression, which is more descriptive. but you have very, very low lows. and then you have very, very high highs.