3. Perhaps that’s because no two conditions are the same.

"There are as many kinds of mood disorders as there are kinds of people. Just like no two chicken pox are the same, there just is really no one mental illness. That means we all aren't the pilot who will take down the plane, or the mass shooter, or the girl who can't stop crying.

"Symptoms look different in each person. Solutions are different for each person and what works at one stage doesn't work later on. Before kids, antidepressants worked great. Then my body changed and I'm trying to figure out something else. I wish relatives, friends, and co-workers would stop putting depression in a tiny box with one recipe for health."

—Therese B., 44, founder of Project Beyond Blue — bipolar disorder 2 and treatment-resistant depression