![]() ![]() ![]() RELATED: Naomi Judd Reveals She Suffered from Suicidal Depression: 'No One Can Understand It Unless You've Been There' Over their decades-long careers as mother-daughter duo The Judds, Naomi and 57-year-old Wynonna earned 14 chart-topping songs including "Mama He's Crazy," "Why Not Me," "Turn It Loose," "Change of Heart," and "Let Me Tell You About Love." They also earned five Grammys, nine CMA Awards and seven ACM Awards. "Think of your very worst day of your whole life – someone passed away, you lost your job, you found out you were being betrayed, that your child had a rare disease – you can take all of those at once and put them together and that's what depression feels like." ![]() "Nobody can understand it unless you've been there," Naomi told PEOPLE at the time. The country musician had also been open about her mental health in her 2016 book, River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope, revealing she had suffered from suicidal depression. "People who commit suicide are experiencing problems with mood, impulse control and aggression, all of which involve discrete circuits in the brain that regulate these aspects of human experience, but we still don't understand how these circuits go haywire in the brains of suicide victims." "To understand this issue better, we have to bring the study of suicide into mainstream neuroscience and treat the condition like every other brain disorder," continued the note. Suicide is actually one of the leading causes of preventable death among these mental illnesses."įor more on Naomi Judd, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day. "We do know that suicidal behavior accompanies many behavioral brain disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. "For everyone mourning the death of someone who committed suicide, an inevitable question arises: Why did this happen? Unfortunately, we don't have very good answers," wrote the musician at the time. LOS ANGELES - CIRCA 2005: Singer Naomi Judd poses for a portrait circa 2005 in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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