The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Awards Chatter<\/a> podcast, the esteemed actor was candid about the mental health struggles he faced while attending Ripon College in Wisconsin in the early 1960s. At the time, Ford said his social isolation led him to exhibit symptoms of depression.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI had a single room, and I had classes to go to, but I rarely ventured out. I would get up out of my single bed, go to a phone, order a pizza, go back and lie down in bed until the pizza came. I would eat the pizza, throw the wrappers in the corner, go back to sleep,\u201d Ford said. \u201cOn the rare occasion I did go to the classroom, I would often touch the door on the outside of the building, and turn around and walk back. I was more than depressed. I think I was ill. I was socially ill, psychologically not well.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\tFord went on to explain that this dark period of his life actually led to his discovery of the acting profession. \u201cI never found a community at college until I accidentally \u2014 in an attempt to get my grade-point average up \u2014 took a class called \u2018drama\u2019 without reading the full description of the class,\u201d he said on the podcast. From there, the future acting legend was forced into the craft and quickly found his knack. \u201cI think I simply found my place amongst storytellers. It really changed my world, changed my life,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n
\n\tNearly a decade after college, Ford would star in the film that kicked off his acting career, American Graffiti<\/a>, and introduce him to another person who would change his life:\u00a0George Lucas, creator of Star Wars\u00a0and\u00a0the Indiana Jones franchises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actor opened up about his past mental health struggles in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Harrison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,30633,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-598953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-harrison-ford","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}