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

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

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

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

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.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.