You wouldn’t judge someone for taking medication for a heart condition. So why, asks Amanda Seyfried, would you shame someone with a mental health condition for doing the same thing?
The “Ted 2” actress recently opened up to Allure magazine, where she slammed the negative perceptions surrounding psychiatric medication.
“What are you fighting against? Just the stigma of using a tool?” she said. “A mental illness is a thing that people cast in a different category [from other illnesses], but I don’t think it is. It should be taken as seriously as anything else.”
Seyfried, who has obsessive compulsive disorder and has taken medication for over a decade, said she’s firmly committed to staying on her treatment plan in order to maintain her well-being. And she’s absolutely smart to do so: Experts agree medical support is the best way to manage and recover from a mental health issue.
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