In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.

Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.