In an interview with Apple music, Eilish revealed that, “Depression has controlled sort of like everything in my life, for my whole life” and that she has always been a melancholy person. She explains that it is okay to feel sad all the time and that it is experienced differently by other people, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Read MoreIn her 2008 commencement speech at Harvard, Rowling relates the monstrous Dementors to depression as “[t]hey [Dementors] infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them… Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you.”
Read MoreWith the absence of what has been an essential element of my holidays this year, I can’t help but reflect on the significance Star Wars and its characters have to me – specifically, the impact Carrie Fisher had on me as a young teenager in normalizing the discussion of mental health.
Read MoreFollowing the birth of her son, Angelo, Adele struggled with postpartum depression. “I was obsessed with my child. I felt very inadequate; I felt like I'd made the worst decision of my life.” Feelings of inadequacy and disdain for her new role as a mother took over Adele’s life.
Read MoreWhen you hear the name Michael Phelps, what comes to mind? Swimming, perhaps? Water, pools, the Olympics? Gold medals (23 of them!)? Any and all of these are reasonable connections to make. If you look up images of Michael Phelps online, most of them involve one or more of those things. But there’s another facet to Phelps’ life that is less conspicuous: depression.
Read MoreThe truth is that we often don’t see below the surface, below the act that people suffering from this illness are compelled to put on, just to keep going from day to day. Depression doesn’t discriminate.
Read MoreWinona Ryder, 80’s icon and star of a wide variety of critically-acclaimed or fan-obsessed movies such as Heathers and Girl, Interrupted, has more recently opened up about her own struggles with depression.
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