Star de The little house in the meadow In the 1970s and 80s, the interpreter of Laura Ingalls Wilder recently revealed that she had secretly suffered from a terrible health problem for years.
Behind her broad smile, her laughing eyes and her childish braids, Melissa Gilbert suffered. When she was only about ten years old, the actress was already prey to a neurological handicap on the set of filming of The little house in the meadow. A very hard situation to live on a daily basis, which has followed him almost all her life, of which the American actress finally speaks without taboos.
« It was a really dark and difficult period of my childhood«
Melissa Gilbert has always been very sensitive to the noises that surrounded him: chewing chewing gum, applause or even nail skes, the actress was immediately tense when they were listened to, which attacked her hearing. A difficult situation to live, especially when she was shooting class scenes in The little house in the meadow : « If one of the children chewed chewing gum, ate or tapped the nails on the table, I was terribly wanted to run away“, Thus revealed last August the interpreter of Laura Ingalls in an interview with People.
Years after the shooting of the cult seriesthe actress, deeply marked, still remembered what her handicap made her feel: ” I became red like a tomato, my eyes filled with tears and I stayed sitting there, feeling absolutely unhappy and horribly guilty of having so much hatred towards all these people – people I loved […] It was a really dark and difficult period of my childhood“, Said, very touched, Melissa Gilbert.
-« I really felt bad. It is a very insulating disorder«
A few years ago, the 60 -year -old actress finally discovered thanks to the Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotional Regulation that his intense reactions to certain noises were due to a real neurological handicap, a Selective sound sensitivity syndrome called misophonie.
« I cried when I discovered that it had a name and that I was not only a bad person“Said Melissa Gilbert to the American media. All her life, the star actress of the cult series of 70s and 80s had indeed guilty of ” [jeter] Haine looks at [ses] parents, [sa] grandmother and [ses] siblings When they involuntarily emitted aggressive sound signals, passing it for a difficult child.
« I just thought that I was unconferful. And I really felt bad. And guilty, which is an essential component of misophonia, the guilt that we feel in the face of these feelings of combat or flight. It is a very insulating disorder“Explained the unforgettable Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Today, Melissa Gilbert is struggling to make misophonia known and guilty those suffering from this disorder. To treat this health problem, the actress has followed a treatment of Cognitivo-behavioral therapy who made him ” [réaliser qu’elle pouvait] overcome these waves“, Even if these” will never disappear ” Really. Now that it has solutions to be more comfortable and less subject to reactions, the star of The little house in the meadow entrusted to People feel again ” the feeling of having control » : « It changed my life“, She revealed, moved.
