Mariah Carey’s Secret Battle With Bipolar Disorder

Mariah Carey has finally confessed to suffering from bipolar disorder — confirming The National ENQUIRER's bombshell scoop that she'd been diagnosed with the horrific mental illness after being committed to a Connecticut hospital in July 2001.

“I’m just in a really good place right now,” Mariah told PEOPLE, “where I’m comfortable discussing my struggles with bipolar II disorder....It does not have to define you, and I refuse to allow it to define me or control me.” Mariah added that she's now on medication that's “pretty good” — while her brother Morgan has revealed family secrets behind her private battle!

Morgan told The ENQUIRER in 2015 that Mariah inherited her “alcoholic behavior” and bipolar disorder from their drunkard mother Pat — a former opera singer enjoying a lavish lifestyle thanks to her Grammy-winning daughter. "Our mother set the stage for her dysfunctionality,” said Morgan, adding: “She set the stage for the bipolarity, for the inability to have a healthy, honest relationship with a man."

Mariah's brother even blasted Pat for raising the family in a chilling atmosphere of “fear, abandonment and dishonesty,” saying that left his star sister coping with fame as an “emotionally retarded” adult. Morgan added that the pop diva had been diagnosed as bipolar after her “emotional and physical breakdown" in 2001.

The demanding pop diva had been rushed to the Connecticut hospital after being found dripping with blood after cutting herself in a Manhattan hotel. By then, however, The ENQUIRER had documented several years of Mariah's bizarre behavior. That included wearing expensive clothing — including a floor-length ball gown — while out playing in parks with her kids.

Mariah also brought along a 10-person entourage to Disneyland that included a personal umbrella-holder on a sunny day. She had also demanded that her employees must always be dressed in black so Mariah would stand out among them.

Insiders also revealed that Mariah would go into “inexplicable catatonic trances” after concerts and video shoots — and she'd refuse to enter any new country unless she was with her Jack Russell terrier. Still, Mariah insisted to PEOPLE that her mental illness had stayed a secret. “I lived in denial and isolation,” she said, “and in constant fear someone would expose me.”