"With medication, support, hope...."

"Eating right, sleeping well, taking advantage of innovative cognitive behavioral therapy that sets goals and monitors behavior, and using new medicines that target problems without the debilitating side effects help people recover, says King, who looks and acts younger than her 59 years.

'Mental illness has been good to me,' King says with a chuckle. She says she treats her mental illness the same way people with diabetes treat their illness — with medication, support, hope, advocacy, personal responsibility, education and spirituality."