And it affects people from all walks of life. Lady Gaga, Hugh Laurie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, J. K. Rowling, Eminem, Steven Fry, Alastair Campbell, Abraham Lincoln, Sigmund Freud, Winston Churchill, Franz Kafka, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ian Thorpe, Sir John Kirwan, Dan Carcillo – they have all suffered or suffer with depression. Every single one of them.
