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I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, 'Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.'

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to is to categorize them as, 'Oh, they're crazy,' to belittle the problem.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

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

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.