“20 per cent of American adults face some form of mental illness in their lifetime. RelatedBell notes that the “extreme stigma” surrounding mental health makes it particularly difficult for people to seek help. But there’s nothing weak about struggling with mental illness. In the essay, Bell reveals that she developed depression in college but stayed silent about it for several years: “I didn’t speak publicly about my struggles with mental health for the first 15 years of my career. … I’m normally such a bubbly, positive person, and all of a sudden I stopped feeling like myself.”“Depression is not sadness,” she clarifies.

Source: National Post June 01, 2016 15:22 UTC