Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.

My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

Please don't mistake who I am for who the character is.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.