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Turner also credited with Williams, who plays her sister on \"Game of Thrones,\" with eventually helping her work through her depression, saying, \"She’s unapologetically herself and she’s funny and she’s really smart and she’s in her own lane.\"

Now with medication, therapy and help from Jonas, Turner said she is happier and healthier today.

\"'I love myself now, or more than I used to,\" she said. \"And I suppose when someone tells you they love you every day, it makes you realize why that is, and I think it makes you love yourself a bit more.\"

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Turner's comments on her mental health came just one day after singer Bebe Rexha revealed she has bipolar disorder, writing in a series of emotional tweets that she is “not ashamed anymore.”

Turner said she hopes people see that celebrities and others talking openly about their mental health does not make it a trend, but just a reality of what people are going through.

The World Health Organization estimates that more than 300 million people of all ages suffer from depression around the world.

Turner is now using her platform to help end the stigma around mental health and working to make mental health resources more accessible, including in her native U.K.

\"People talking about it isn’t a trend, it’s just people actually being transparent for the first time,\" Turner said. \"People ... should realize that mental health problems are everywhere, in almost every person that we know. I just think it’s so important to talk about it.\"

\"It’s like a broken arm. You go and get the help that you need,\" she said. \"There shouldn’t be any stigma.\"

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