Kit Harington Says Game Of Thrones Led To Mental Health Issues

I’m not surprised. The ending gave me mental health issues too!

I find that I have to go see a shrink after pretending to be someone while playing an RPG and when I was Dracula for the college play. Oh, the horror...

No, that's not true... the shrink part was fabricated.

People seem more fragile these days. How about some perspective!

Try getting deployed overseas surrounded by people who want to kill you, and dealing with that stress and exposure.

How about firefighters getting surrounded by a massive forest fire? Sounds pretty stressful.

I really don't give a shit about some actor having a mental break for pretending to be something he isn't. You memorize some lines, play dress-up, and rake in a lot of cash to go play pretend for a living. smh

What a waste of time article.

There seems to be a media push about mental health lately. For example, there are a lot of articles about different Olympic athletes experiencing mental health issues, this season.

I wonder what the agenda is... perhaps mental health lockdowns?

I guess this is the latest propaganda subject that they want to push. The previous was "Asians being hated on" Only Mongol style Asians though.

I seriously don't understand his mental health issues (unless something else is going on in his life) because that show has earned him very good money, good side projects (movies/video game characters), earned him a nice looking (and seemingly fun) partner for life, good friends from the show and also get to see beautiful places in the world while filming it....so what more does he expect in life? he should be really lucky that he got loads of cash at a very young age so he can atleast need not worry about one big & crucial thing in life, which is Money. If the mental health issues are arising purely from finishing the Game of Thrones project that has run for 8 years for you, then I've no pity for you whatsoever! So, Kit, get a grip and be grateful with what you've and what you've achieved.

Honestly pretty sad and pathetic that people attack Kit Harrington over this. Judging by this comment section.

Sharing personal facts = omfg virgin banshee looking for attention.

If you are rich, you are not allowed to take care of yourself mentally. Remember Kurt Cobain? , well thank God he just killed himself, imagine if that loser had sought help and maybe made even more awesome music?.

Money = holy grail, have a gunshot wound, just stuff some coins in their, fixed!. Have incurable cancer, just pay death the toll for eternal life, duh!. Got ptsd? pfff. Just wipe your face with some good ol cash or why not, just transfer money between your own bank accounts, instant cure!.

Come on people.. do you not hear how stupid you sound?. Lets be real as well GoT dealt with a lot of heavy topics, I can only imagine if an actor had to put themselves in the mindset of being r*ped or tortured, or abused to the brink of your sanity could leave some scars. How on earth is that any weird if it might affect you in some ways?.

“How could anyone possibly have any kind of problem
that couldn't be permanently and instantaneously fixed with money?”
- You

So he got a taste of what job insecurity after 10 years feels like...and this is how he deals? Yikes dude, deep breaths. Were not all built like a grindstone, though.

It's quite sad to see how bitter some people are towards those who happen to have more money than them. I'm not privvy to what conditions the actors worked under on the GoT set but a family member who works in the industry told me of their commom experiences such as 16 hour days, months of seperation from loved ones, massive pressure to get scenes right due to time constraints, constant scrutiny from the media and the expectation of adhering to a strict excercise and diet regime for several years in order to maintain the physical appearance of the character they played in a series.

When i arrive home from work at the end of the day I kiss my wife, hug my little boy and enjoy time with my family but for them they would head back to an empty apartment in a strange city to go over lines in preparation to do do it all over again the next day and this carried on for years until the show ended. The financial compensation for acting can be lucrative but it's a lonely existence.

Game of Thrones became a mental issue for how crappy it ended. Cry harder Kit.

the thing that made him a millionaire setting him up for life at a young age made him sad at times, poor guy.

facepalm...

I get it. Season 8 was terrible. But there will be better days Kit. Don't worry broski!

I'm sure he thought the last episode sucked as much as everyone else did.

I totally respect mental issues but an actor who can't do his job without getting crazy? He either had issues before or he is so sensitive he has to find a harmless profession.

I mean when I got out of the university I found a good job and everything was alright. Then they told me the country has gone bankrupt, I got fired and had to live on scraps for a year. I spent two months without electricity eating things I'd puke before and still wake up every morning to do anything that could get me some money. Even now I'm getting paid far less than I should. This week they decided to reduce our water supply because there is not enough. My house is atop a mountain and I don't get any. I haven't bathed since Saturday and my clothes feel like they are one with my skin. It's 36 C iside and I can't sleep, but I have to go to work tomorrow and... smell decent.

How can a guy like him with millions of dollars in his account, that allow him to get a year off to feel better, gets to whine over his job? My grandpa fought in two wars and he still had to work like a slave to feed his family because he was a refugee and they treated him like a dog, even after risking his life twice. My mother was thrown out of the university because they suspected she was a commie. My father was exiled and left to die in a forsaken island for the same reason.

OK now I'm bitching like a baby and I get it, but those people live in a different world. This dude scored the best possible role to boost his career, he met his wife there, and now he comes to tell us it was so hard he got sick? I hope he gets better.

Whaaaaahhh! So Sad...good thing you had millions to cover your year off. Convenient that it wasn't so bad that you had to quit during the show....only after the money train was at the end of its run.

Boo hoo.