Even in today’s modern world, mental health issues are often looked at with disdain. Admitting to attending therapy, or worse, taking some sort of mental health drug, makes people tiptoe around you like you’re crazy. Under normal circumstances, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Depression is an illness, like diabetes or the flu. So, why does it have such a stigma? People who have lived through depression are often expected to snap out of it and just see the good in life. Their loved ones don’t understand that the disease makes that impossible. Deciding to get help is the most positive thing someone in that situation can do and often becomes the difference between getting better or dying from the illness.
Depression doesn’t just affect people in lower income brackets either. Many celebrities have dealt with the disease and become advocates for others in the same situation.
Here are 10 of the biggest names who have battled against depression and won.