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“Why is that brave, you ask? Simple: because living with the stigma of struggling with depression — with any mental illness, really — can be just as soul-crushingly awful as dealing with the depression itself. Even if you’re a super-cool, super-famous celebrity with legions of fans.

Now of course, Padalecki has access to things that other people coping with mental illness don’t have, like endless amounts of money for treatment and the ability to take weeks off to unwind.  But when he “came out” as depressed earlier this year, he had to have fully known that the stigma exists for him, too — because, when you’re a manly-man actor who leads one of the manly-manliest shows on television, how could you possibly be depressed? Shouldn’t he just go home and cry into his piles of money? (No, he shouldn’t. And yes, I’ve already seen this exact argument tweeted about Padalecki on the interwebs. By jerks.)”

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