Ginger Zee shared a powerful message amid National Suicide Prevention Week.
Zee has been vocal about her past struggles. In 2011, she checked herself into a mental hospital to seek treatment for depression.Robin Roberts to talk about her new memoir,"I fought a disease called depression that a lot of people fight every, single day," Zee explained."And just like any disease there is a stigma or, unlike other diseases, there is a stigma surrounding it.
Roberts praised Zee for not holding back and even admitting that she thought about taking her own life. "I start the book by saying, 'Ten days before I started my job at ABC News I checked myself into a mental health hospital,'" Zee shared."And that took a lot of guts to start there and bury the lede. There's some joy in there. There is a lot of comedy. There's a lot of other things, but you need to get to the crux of it and that is, I had a disease. I will always have that disease. It's not something that just magically goes away.