Naomi Judd struggled with severe depression. It led her to advocate for others with mental health is

[RandySF]

In the years before her death, Naomi Judd was candid about her battle with suicidal ideation, panic attacks and the ups and downs of her mental health struggles.

That fight eventually led her to advocate for others, offering words of solace and solidarity with those who also struggled with suicidal thoughts.

Judd died on Saturday at the age of 76. Daughters Wynonna and Ashley Judd said they had lost their mother to "the disease of mental illness."

“We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory," Judd's daughters in a statement on Saturday.

Although in some instances Judd said she had struggled with her mental health for her entire life, she often cited the close of The Judds' "Last Encore" tour in 2012 as the time when things got particularly dark.



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1. From the Judds

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[Maraya1969]

2. So sad. I'm glad they are using the word's mental illness as the cause of death.

[Picaro]

3. She died by suicide?

I’m not understanding what is meant by having lost their mom to the “disease of mental illness”.

Someone less dense than I explain.

[Beautiful Disaster]

4. Yes.

It's rare family will say they've lost someone to suicide. Instead, they'll use this type of rhetoric. But the implication is clear, and very sad.

[Picaro]

6. Thank you

[Bucky]

8. When Thomas Jefferson and George Mason were rewriting Virginia's legal code in the 1790s

They had suicide reclassified as a death by disease rather than homicide, so that heirs wouldn't lose their inheritance and to take the stigma of misplaced moral judgment off of people who succumbed to depression.

230 years later we as a society are still struggling to come to this understanding. It's such a pity. You want to be a more compassionate society but collectively we just don't seem to know how to use the tools we have

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. I wonder if she was having a hard time with aging?

She was so beautiful when she was younger. It has to be hard to deal with getting older. Look at how many famous women have surgery. But surgery doesn't solve the problem. You are still getting older.

Just a thought.

[Aristus]

7. I've never understood the whole 'surgery to look younger' thing.

One never looks younger; just like they've had surgery.

I'm fifty-three, and have always been attracted to older women. From the age of seven (when I guess all women are older women) to today, I've found mature women staggeringly sexy. All the more so if they didn't avail themselves of surgery. It's no secret why Helen Mirren is still considered one of the sexiest women on the planet.

Judi Dench, Annette Bening, etc. They stay beautiful simply by not trying too hard.

Helen Mirren is nearing eighty, and if she invited me for a weekend away together, she wouldn't have to ask twice.

Am I being unfair, I wonder? Can I understand the impulses of someone who elects to have a lot of surgery? I'm not sure; my face has never been my fortune. I've never had to worry what life would be like if aging took away my looks.

[Bucky]

9. I'm with you. The effect of celebs getting facelifts is never looking younger

Their eyes look stretched, their smile stretch too close to their ears, and their faces start to look like an unwrapped mummy. And you should add Linda Hamilton to your list.

[Aristus]

10. How could I have forgotten?

Definitely Linda Hamilton!

[shrike3]

11. Aging can be very hard on beautiful women.

Even more so, when they are in the public eye. Women are also hard on themselves. There was a special not long ago on Janis Joplin. Her male contemporaries had no problem going on camera. Her female contemporaries not so much. Grace Slick reportedly said, "No one wants to see me looking like this." Ironically, my husband saw a recent picture of her and said, "She looks just fine."

[Rebl2]

12. She said

she struggled with depression or her mental health most of her life.

[Patterson]

13. She may have had a crisis due to the upcoming Hall of Fame induction.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. From Dolly Parton

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