This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I’ve had both.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

I’ll say it again – mental illness is a physical illness. You wouldn’t consider going up to someone suffering from Alzheimers to yell, “Come on, get with it, you remember where you left your keys?”...

It’s an unfortunate word, ‘depression’, because the illness has nothing to do with feeling sad, sadness is on the human palette. Depression is a whole other beast. It’s when your old personality has left town...

It’s so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.