15 Celebrities Who Struggle With Mental Illness And Aren't Afraid To Talk About It

"My doctor diagnosed me with ADHD in my early teens," the Maroon 5 frontman said. "What was really helpful to me was learning that this was a real medical condition, I had ADHD. As a young adult and adult, I continued having difficulty in the studio as I was trying to write new songs and focus to complete my work."

"I remember my makeup artist and assistant walking me to the set [of 'The Aviator'] and going, ‘Oh God, we’re going to need 10 minutes to get him there because he has to walk back and step on that thing, touch the door and walk in and out again," the Oscar-nominated actor said.

"There’s a lot of misunderstanding. There’s a lot of people out there that think that it’s not real, that it’s not true. That it’s something that’s made up in their minds, that, ‘Oh, it’s hormones.’ They brush it off," she said. "It’s something that’s completely uncontrollable. It’s really painful and it’s really scary and women need a lot of support." 

"I've known that I have this mental illness for a long time, and I've had a lot of therapy and learned a lot of strategies for dealing with my illness," the Fault In Our Stars author said. "And I try to treat my mental illness the way you would any chronic illness, and I'm very lucky that in general it's very manageable," 

"I remember sitting with my manager and my family and talking to them about whether or not to speak out about the issues that I was dealing with," the "Confident" singer said.  “I knew that there were two options: I could either not talk about my stint in rehab and hope that it went away, or I could talk about it and inspire people to get help for their issues, as well, so that’s exactly what I did.”

"You are not the only person in the world who has anxiety. You are not the only person in the world who has depression," Wil said. "You’re not the only person in the world who has thoughts of self-harm. There are people who want to help you. There are people who have spent their entire lives helping people like you and me and all of the people that you’re seeing in this video. And you’re not alone. You are okay."

"I don’t bite my nails, but I rip out my eyelashes," she said. "It doesn’t hurt, but it’s really annoying. Every time I run out of the house, I have to stop and pick up a whole set of fake eyelashes." 

"Sometimes you didn’t want to be that person. You didn’t want to hold the dinner party hostage. And I didn’t have a choice. I’d keep people on the phone for eight hours," the actress said. "When my mania is going strong, it’s sort of a clear path. You know, I’m flying high up onto the mountain, but it starts going too fast. I stop being able to connect. My sentences don’t make sense. I’m not tracking anymore and I can’t sleep and I’m not reliable."

"There's no shame in having to fight every day, but fighting every day, and presumably, if you're still alive to hear these words or read this interview, then you are winning your war. You're here," the Supernatural hottie said. "You might not win every battle. There are going to be some really tough days. There might be several tough times in any given single day, but hopefully, this will help somebody to think, 'This isn’t easy; it is a fight, but I’m going to keep fighting'."

"I did do therapy and antidepressants for a brief period, which helped me. Which is what therapy does: it gives you another perspective when you are so lost in your own spiral, your own bullshit," the Mad Men star said. "It helps. And honestly? Antidepressants help! If you can change your brain chemistry enough to think: 'I want to get up in the morning; I don't want to sleep until four in the afternoon. I want to get up and go do my shit and go to work and...' Reset the auto-meter, kick-start the engine!"

"Finally I went into the hospital when I was 19 for depression and for cutting," the actress said. "I wasn't the person I wanted to be and I knew something was wrong. The therapist diagnosed me with anorexia, exercise bulimia — instead of throwing up you go to the gym for hours — depression and body dysmorphia."

"I’ll go into a hotel room. Before I can relax I have to move all the leaflets and all the books and put them in a drawer. Everything has to be perfect," the soccer star said.

"As soon as I said 'I need help', I knew that I was going to get better, and I was determined to get better. But it was just a relief to be able to say those," the singer revealed.

“Seventeen Magazine asked me what I was like when I was 17 and I wasn’t going to say, ‘I was great!' because I wasn’t. I was suffering from a mental disorder," the Pretty Little Liars star said. "But what I so often find is that it becomes about the facts. ‘How much weight did you lose? How were you treated? Were you hospitalized?’ And that’s not important to me. What is important is to talk about the feelings, to talk about the help that young girls, and young men, who have this problem can get if they find that they are suffering.”