CLAIRE DANES - DANES HAS BEEN IN THERAPY FOR 22 YEARS

STARDUST actress CLAIRE DANES has undergone therapy for the past 22-years, in a bid to overcome her neurosis. The 28-year-old first began therapy at the tender age of six - when her parents discovered she was afraid of her imaginary friends. She says, "I was getting to be a bit of a neurotic mess, so my parents thought therapy might do me good. But ultimately I became more scared of my therapists than I was of these imaginary creatures." Danes, who studied psychology at Yale University, eventually overcame her fear and now attends weekly therapy sessions - insisting the process has helped her acting career. She adds, "I've benefited enormously from therapy. It's made me more self-aware and safer. It's given me a chance to reflect on my experiences and my feelings. To name them, identify them and organise them into some kind of shape."