Australia's most decorated Olympian, with five gold medals at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Games, was admitted to a rehabilitation facility for the condition in 2014 after being found disoriented on a Sydney street.
"I am someone who has struggled with mental health issues since I was a teen," Thorpe wrote in a blog post for news website Huffington Post Australia.
"From the outside, many would not see my pain nor be able to relate to the sometimes-daily struggle I was facing.
"This is part of the deception of depression and also mental illness: what may appear at face value is a stark difference from the agony that lies within."
The 33-year-old has said previously that he kept the problem secret from his loved ones, but is now part of Young Minds Matter, a campaign designed to raise awareness of children's mental health issues backed by Prince William's wife Kate Middleton.
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