Jared Padalecki

It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

It’s not about eating healthy to lose weight. It’s about eating healthy to feel good.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

Yes. I am mentally ill. I’m not embarrassed about it. And I have written my best work not when flirting with the brink, but when treating my chronic health problem with consistency and care.

I think it’s important for us to have open conversations about mental health, especially with me being black, because we’ve never had therapists in the black community, we’ve never taken medication. I think it was good that when I had my first complete blackout at age 5, my mom didn’t fully medicate me, because I might not have fully been Ye.

I’ll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I’ll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

I don’t regret opening up about what I went through [with depression]. Because, it sounds really cliche, but I have had women come up to me and say, ‘It meat so much to me.’

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

We can’t let people down when they can’t get any medical care, when they’re sick and don’t have money to go to a doctor. You help them.