Indeed. And I feel pretty honoured that I got to grow up with his music.
Yeah, he was part of the Linkin Park band, but he was suffering a lot from depressions and after he committed the suicide back in 20th July 2017 I paid more attention to the hidden messages from his songs and made me feel really bad that this man was screaming his pain and suffering through his songs for so long and nobody really noticed that, but only when it was too late..
There's so many in the same situation I think, not all famous, but some. Look at Anthony Bourdain for instance.
Last October two of my friends, husband and wife, blew their heads off together...They were depressed, had money issues. I've lost many military mates to PTSD in the same way...It always makes me angry with them that they didn't aske for help. Anyway, we deal with it and hope that we are more able to reach out should it be us in that situation. As I said, suicide is a very final option, there's no coming back from it.
I'm sad to hear that and yeah, it's definitely a huge problem more people are confronting with, and it's way more painful when you see some you knew doing it instead of asking for some help and letting you be there for them when needed. It personally gives me a strange mood making me feel like more or less I contributed to their decision, and it's hard to live with such pressure on your shoulders. That's why I try with each passing day to work more on myself and be a better version of myself..
This is smart...being the best version of ourselves, as often as possible, is all a person can ask of themselves I think.
Thank you :)