Bradley Cooper was is reportedly in Washington D.C. to attend President Barack Obama's opening comments at the White House's National Conference on Mental Health. The star of this summer's most recent comedy "The Hangover III" has made a very personal connection with the subject matter that the president was speaking about.
After playing a man with Bipolar disorder in last year's Oscar winning film "Silver Linings Playbook," Cooper began taking the subject very seriously and developing a special interest in the subject of Bipolar and other mental health disorders.
Earlier this year, at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Cooper sat down for a Q&A session with about 50 military veterans who were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In a blog post that he personally wrote for The Huffington Post, Cooper wrote:
"Silver Linings Playbook is such a personal movie for David and when we all came together, it became a personal movie for all of us. Tiffany, she serves as a catalyst and she's the first person who actually sees who Pat is. That's the thing that this film has done, people around this country who have seen this film say, 'this film actually sees who I am' because it's heavily stigmatized, it's not a very treatable disease and it's a condition that is diagnosed way too late. So hopefully, a movie like this will help it become in the onset. That's the best thing about this movie, that it's able to reach out and make people feel included."
President Obama discussed mental health care plans for American veterans on Tuesday, the exact topic that brought Cooper to the city in January.
With his appearance in D.C. on Tuesday, the actor is furthering his commitment to lending his voice and fame as an actor to drawing attention to the problems facing people with mental illnesses in the U.S.
