Demi Lovato does more than just sing and dance and star in movies. Demi Lovato is a role model and uses her fame to reach out to fans and use her influence to help support issues such as mental health. She says that Mental illness isn't prejudice, it doesn't have favorites and she wants the issue to be taken seriously. She uses her personal experiences to relate directly to her fans and encourages them to stay strong and explains that the journey may be rough but the destination is well worth the struggle.

Demi wants to demolish the shame that is affiliated with mental health issues and prove that there is life and happiness after diagnosis. She even wants to make congress pass a bill to help support mental health care. She wants the care to be given to those who need it and prevent horrible consequences; such as suicide, which is one of the leading causes of death among young adults. While living the life of a celebrity, she lives the life of a struggling human being with her own mental health diagnosis as well. She uses her story to reach out and connect with suffering young adults all around the world. All the while teaching young adults to be confident in their bodies, in their skin.

Demi struggles with bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, and to cope she turned to drinking to cover it up, in the long run she found help and wants everyone to know they're not alone. She wants to be the celebrity that teens can look up to as a role model and see her as a human being with issues just like theirs. Demi may have had rough times in her life but has always used her voice to stick out among the crowd to draw awareness to these issues, to tell people to reach out for help, that it's not shameful to do this but good for you. After seeking out help and getting the right treatment for herself, she is happier and better than ever. She sees the rainbow at the end of the tunnel of mental health issues and disorders and wants her struggling fans to see it too.

It wasn't easy for Demi to open up and just voice her issues with the world. As a celebrity, people will assume you have no problems; you have fame and fans and you'd think that's all a celebrity wants, but in the end, happiness matters and it takes a lot out of a person to speak up and share their stories, let alone use their stories to give a voice to such an issue. She was strong and opened up the door to these issues and becoming an advocate, a representative, has given her an even wider fan base and more to relate with her fans. Becoming a voice that millions of people can listen to and feel better from is amazing. She may not be able to talk to each and every fan to make them feel better but I feel that if she ever had to ability, she would. So until then, she continues to burst out encouraging messages to her fans.

On a personal note; watching Demi go from "Barney" to "Camp Rock" to "Sonny With A Chance" and all the other shows she's played on and after listening to all her music, I can honestly say she has become such an inspiration to me myself. As I've grown, I've also watched her grow and mature, all the while, fighting her issues of mental health. In this time, I've went through my own issues with anxiety, depression and other personal things. After seeing her progress, I believe every person has a chance to be happy and healthy again. That there is life after diagnosis like she says. That mental health itself underestimates the victim their holding hostage in their own body and it's OK to break out of it. It is OK to get help, feel better and become happy and confident again.

"So you say I'm complicated
That I must be outta my mind
But you had me underrated
Rated, rated
What's wrong with being, what's wrong with being
What's wrong with being confident?" - Demi