5. Sara-Jayne Poletti

Sara-Jayne grew up in a Catholic household where talking about mental illness was taboo.

“I knew the way that I thought and felt things was different, but it wasn't until my early twenties that I realized just how impactful it was on my whole life,” she tells Verywell.

When she decided to seek professional help as an adult, she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder , generalized anxiety disorder , and later, post-traumatic stress disorder .