Is the stigma that surrounds mental health shifting?
It’s starting to be overcome as people realise it is a disease of the brain, like a disease of the lungs is lung cancer. It’s not just people who don’t want to go to work. With neuroscience now, we can see there’s something biologically wrong. So the stigma will go when everyone can see it’s like having a lump in your head. After studying psychology at the University of California as a teenager, why did you come to Scotland in the 1970s to go to the Royal Scottish Academy of Arts and Drama? I was always going to put the two together. There was something called psychodrama which combined them, but it never lasted. I wanted to be an actress but wasn’t talented or attractive enough. Then I got driven to become more and more successful when I was at drama school, and I got really good at comedy writing. I just tripped into it. Tripped into it? You must have known you had a talent to make people laugh? I started off as a straight actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I didn’t think I
