Like any disease, depression knows no boundaries. Not even those whose have successful careers in Hollywood are immune.
Wrestler and actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has recently has recently come out as living with depression.
Like many that live with mental illness, The Rock is genetically disposed toward living with depression. His mother suffered from the disease and nearly killed herself in front of her son when The Rock was a teenager.
I find comfort, as weird as it sounds, that The Rock has made a public announcement. Mental illness, even after all of these years, still carries a stigma. In coming out of the closet, so to speak, he has put another public face on the disease. If someone like The Rock can live with depression and still live a full and happy life, then perhaps the rest of us can.
