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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

I fight manic-depression, and I have been able to live battling that sadness that I get sometimes.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.