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Entity reports that Amanda Seyfried hopes there won't be such a stigma around mental health in the future.

Amanda Seyfried revealed earlier this week that she is expecting her first child with fiancé Thomas Sadoski. And speaking with W Magazine the star shared her hope that he won’t have to face the mental health struggle that she did as a child.

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After lamenting the stigma surrounding cottage cheese – a strong pregnancy craving for the actress – she moved onto a more serious one: mental health. “I thought I was crazy,” she admitted.

Amanda explained that at 10 years old she suffered in silence by keeping mum on obsessive-compulsive tendencies because no one at the time opened up about such issues.

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The “Mean Girls” star added that if she had known it was okay to discuss, she “would have shared it with my parents and not thought that I was crazy.” She also could have “saved ten years” of her life, instead of feeling like she “wasn’t normal.”

And as for her baby, Amanda hopes “the younger generations are hopefully feeling safer in being who they are.” The expectant mother has been open about her struggles with OCD, telling Allure in October that she is on Lexapro.

“I’ll never get off of it,” she declared, explaining, “I’ve been on it – the lowest dose – since I was 19, so 11 years… I don’t see the point of getting off of it.”

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And the star also slammed the way that mental health is “cast in a different category” than other illnesses, commenting on the fact that such issues are often brushed off as a person just “being in a mood” or “having a bad day,” along with the stigma surrounding mental health medication.

She elaborated, “You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it.” Amanda added that “it should be taken as seriously as anything else,” referring to the way physical maladies are treated more readily, and without stigma.

If you or someone you know has a mental health problem, there are ways to get help. The National Institute of Mental Health can be reached toll-free at 1-866-615-6464 as well as by email at [email protected], and via an online chat on their website. NIMH can provide resources for those in need, as well as help in getting treatment.

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