I think you have to take mental illness out of the closet, quite honestly. People go to work and they say they've taken three days off because they twisted their ankle or they've got a cold or a runny nose. No one's going to say they had a bout of depression and took to their bed for three days or they drank themselves into a stupor because they're depressed, they're unhappy. They're not going to do that.
Until you can start to destigmatize what is a huge issue for a lot of people, you can't even begin to talk about it. I think merely accepting and actually announcing it's an illness and actually acknowledging that we need to deal with it is a huge enabler—it's not because you're weak or spineless or you're just having a bad day. Really and honestly, it's not in the publicly funded system.
Unless you go and see a psychiatrist referred by your family doctor or you pitch up in the emergency department having slashed your wrists or taken an overdose, chances of your accessing acute psychiatric care are slim. So the first step has got to be acknowledging you've got a problem. There's an epidemic out there of people killing themselves.