Depression is a deadly disease, that needs to be taken a lot more serious. Most of the time, you cannot tell if somebody is depressed, because most people tend to hide it - out of shame, or the fear of stigma. I never forget, when I was diagnosed with depression at the age of 17, my mother would tell me that I just needed to get out more and be out in the nature. She still - after 18 years - doesn't understand, that she is asking a cancer patient to just stop having cancer.

Someone with Major Depression, you can't just ask them to exercise more, to go make friends, to just be happy, when the hardest task at hand can be just making it to the bathroom from the bed.

I wish some people would just stop with these "just snap out of it!" bullshit attitude. And post shit on FaceBook, to stop taking pills, because they are poison, all we need is look at the rainbow and the horses running. It makes me so mad. Without my meds, I would not be here today...

Anthony, and many other celebrities, like Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington and recently Kate Spade chose death over asking for help...That's how difficult it is to ask for help and open up about it. People rather die than to uncover their "secret" darkness inside them to the public, to the family, and live with the stigma and the bullshit.
Very sad.

I am so thankful Andrew Zimmern is still here. He is my second favorite. He was also such a good friend of Tony's. It is difficult for me to watch one and not to think of the other. For me, at least...

Chris Cornell, Avicii, Chester Bennington, Anthony Bourdain! WTF?

Yeah this was a shock for family and I; we all enjoyed his programs.

Kate Spade's suicide a few days ago doesn't seem as bad in that it was known she was really struggling with suicidal ideas for a long time. Robin Williams, it's now known, was getting out in front of a physical diagnosis of an unusual type of progressive Parkinson's-like palsy that would have progressively annihilated his ability to pursue an existence he found meaningful. But Bourdain, everyone seems to be saying, has never been happier, so it seems almost spur of the moment. And with a young child in the mix, too. My guess is that he was far more existentially conflicted than pretty much anyone knew. Something triggered him, I guess.

I guess the three suicides I mention here come to mind because they also all went by the same method, self-strangulation, which strikes me as a particularly awful way to do the deed, from the perspective of the person dying anyway. Which makes it even harder for me to process.

@Stacey48 had some really good posts about him today too. I will miss his courage and openness to new peoples, cultures, ways of living and of course the food. All that and he was entertaining too... fuck

Tough moment!