Robin Williams's daughter, Zelda Williams sent a social message on World Mental Health Day, encouraging people to fight depression.
The 25-year-old actress, took to Twitter recently, and wrote that mental health was often misrepresented, but could affect anybody and they needed to end the stigma, People magazine reported.
She directed her followers towards "wonderful mental health charities," pressing on the importance of seeking help, and said that it wasn't cowardly to suffer or look for help and people shouldn't just "CHOOSE to make mental illness go away. It is a FIGHT. Fight on."
The 63-year-old comedic actor, who had battled severe depression throughout his life, had committed suicide on August 11, 2014.
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