“I think it is just the way it will encourage people to share and just be open and not hide it anymore. The more you hide it, the harder it gets to survive it. Brene Brown writes about how shame can’t survive empathy because the more you talk about it, the more you tackle it. I really think the importance of the show is to show people in the audience that there are regular people you may not realize are living with mental illness. They have been through it, and they’re telling their story to inspire others.”
Source: Washington Post
