The American singer and actress Demi Lovato has been known for her powerful voice, and now, the singer is using it for something other than belting out her hit songs. Demi Lovato is going to Capitol Hill to raise awareness about mental health issues, something that hits home because the hitmaker earlier confessed that she is suffering from a bipolar disorder.
On Tuesday, the 23 year old pop princess is headed to Washington, D.C. for the Be Vocal: Speak Up for Mental Health movement at the National Council for Behavioral Health's Hill Day.
While the brunette beauty is at the venue, Demi Lovato is going to meet with legislators to push for "comprehensive mental health reform" and access to proper healthcare support.
But the heart of Lovato's mission is really to change society's perception of mental disorders and diseases.
The Skyscraper hitmaker said, "I think it's essential that people no longer look at mental illness as something taboo to talk about. It's something that's exceedingly common, one in five adults has a mental illness, so basically everyone is essentially connected to this matter and this outbreak. The hitch with mental illness is people don't look at it as a physical ailment. When you think about it, the brain is actually the most complex organ in your body. We need to deal with in a certain way like a physical illness and take it seriously."
Demi Lovato revealed that mental illness is the reason why she wasn't able to establish a meaningful relationship with her late father, who was suffering from bipolar-schizophrenia. However, the singer started a scholarship foundation in memory of his father, and Demi Lovato wrote a song about him off her upcoming album titled, Father.
Demi Lovato stated, "The estranged relationship that I had with my father really influenced my life growing up, and it was because he was not given medical care. My father inspired my charity in order to help people live a happy life. Nobody deserves to experience something bad. But it was a very complicated situation, and that's why I firmly determined to write about it. Hopefully people will be able to use that as inspiration and something that will help them ease the distress."
