From ABC News (with video):

Actress Glenn Close and her sister, Jessie Close, are appearing in a national ad campaign aimed at countering stima and providing support to people with mental illness. Jessie Close has bipolar disorder.

In the ad for the nonprofit BringChange2Mind, Jessie Close wears a t-shirt that says “bipolar;” Glenn Close’s shirt says “sister.”

… “Mental illness is just part of the human condition,” the actress said on “Good Morning America,” adding that her family hopes that the sisters’ campaign will help foster a dialogue about a condition that we should “talk about as openly as cancer or diabetes.”

See also:

Mental Illness: The stigma of silence, by Glenn Close in the Huffington Post

An excerpt:

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well. Our society ought to understand that many people with mental illness, given the right treatment, can be full participants in our society.

(Photo from ABC News video)

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