According to IMDb, he started his career in showbiz by pure chance. A producer noticed him during an amateur night at the Comedy Store on the L.A. Sunset Strip during a vacation after his friends convinced him to try it out.<\/p>\n
Today, Mandel is one of the most famous names in the world of entertainment. A TV celebrity, screenwriter, actor, producer, director, entrepreneur, and popular game show panelist\/host, you name it, Mandel has tried it all and proved that he\u2019s great in all of it.<\/p>\n
Recently, however, he decided to open up about his mental state and confessed he\u2019s been battling anxiety, ADHD, and OCD most of his life. The truth is that no one can really assume that someone as fun as Mandel could be going through such a thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m living in a nightmare,\u201d he declared. \u201d I work to ground myself. I love what I do and have a lovely family. However, I can also experience severe sadness from which I can never recover.\u201d<\/p>\n
This turned even worse during the COVID-19 pandemic when we were forced into lockdown. Mandel revealed to People magazine that there was no day the thought \u201cwe would die\u201d didn\u2019t cross his mind. But the fact that no one from his closest surrounding was affected gave him comfort.<\/p>\n
Although he was diagnosed in his thirties, Mandal knows he had OCD and ADHD since forever. He, however, didn\u2019t speak of his mental state openly because he believed it would affect his career. \u201cMy first reaction was that I\u2019ve embarrassed my family,\u201d he admitted. \u201cThen I realized that nobody would hire someone who wasn\u2019t stable. Those were my concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was comedy that helped him during the toughest times in his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy coping mechanism is finding the humorous,\u201d he declared. \u201cIf I\u2019m not smiling, I\u2019m probably sobbing. And I\u2019ve still held back on how horrible and dark it actually gets. In a way, comedy saved me. I feel very much at ease on stage. And when I have nothing to do, I retreat, which is not healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mandel\u2019s goal is to help raise awareness about mental illness and break the stigma.<\/p>\n
Please SHARE this article with your family and friends on Facebook.<\/p>\n
Bored Daddy<\/p>\n
SEE MORE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to IMDb, he started his career in showbiz by pure chance. A producer noticed him during an amateur night at the Comedy Store on the L.A…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amazinggstory.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}