Lark Voorhies: From Mental Health To Moving On
(photo credit: Lark Voorhies twitter, December 2016)
Lark Voorhies is best known for playing rich teen Lisa Turtle on the NBC sitcom “Saved By the Bell”. She is one of four cast members to be carried over from the original Disney Channel show “Good Morning Miss Bliss”. Since the show she has appeared in a variety of films but her career has flagged somewhat in recent years. So what happened to Lark Voorhies?
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She posts at the beginning of 2020, “I hope you all are having a great week! What are some of your 2020 resolutions? #blessed #larkvoorhies #larkfilter #love”
Despite the strange interviews, marriages and divorces, and strange sightings, it looks like Lark is trying to make things right. In December 2016, she released the new photo above.
Since 2010 Lark Voorhies has been writing novels. Her first book was self published, titled Reciprocity, it is available on Amazon along with her other releases. It had been noticed that Lark had been looking increasingly unwell when she appeared in person. She confirmed that she has been battling Lupus for the last eight years which may explain some of her more questionable makeup choices in recent years. In spite of this she has reaffirmed her commitment to her company, her books and her music.
According to multiple websites, in December 2014, Lark captioned the above left image with “Pray for me,” although she has since changed the caption. Her friends responded by letting her know that they would indeed be keeping her in their thoughts.
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The former teen star, known to a generation of fans as the adorable, fun-loving character Lisa Turtle, denies anything is wrong, but after a series of bizarre pictures and video, some begin to question if the once child star was sick, suffering from some disease or even if drugs were at play. Voorhies adamantly denied it. Instead, her mother says, she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
In a series of interviews with People, the magazine inferred that it was clear something wasn’t right with Voorhies. The magazine said during the interviews, she would frequently stop mid-sentence and stare off, often mumbling to herself or to others who weren’t there.
“There are things that have traumatized her,” says her mom Tricia, who shares a home with her daughter in Pasadena, Calif. Tricia says her daughter suffers from bipolar disorder.
“I care deeply about my daughter and I want her to resume her life,” Tricia says deeply.
READ: Signs of Bipolar Disorder That You Never Knew Existed
But Voorhies says she is not sick and keeps busy by working on low-budget indie productions, recording music and self-publishing her own books.
When asked about her far-off stares, she simply says that she is a spiritual person and they caught her “in a moment of prayer.”
Signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder include:
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- Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, such as feeling sad, empty, hopeless or tearful (in children and teens, depressed mood can appear as irritability)
- Markedly reduced interest or feeling no pleasure in all — or almost all — activities most of the day, nearly every day
- Significant weight loss when not dieting, weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day (in children, failure to gain weight as expected can be a sign of depression)
- Either insomnia or sleeping excessively nearly every day
