Naomi Judd openly shared her struggles with severe depression for years

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The late Naomi Judd had been open about her struggle with mental illness over the years, stopping by TODAY in December 2017 to detail her experience beginning in 2011 with severe depression.

Judd emphasized it wasn’t about being happy or sad, it was a chemical imbalance. “We don’t make enough of the good neurochemicals in the brain,” she said at the time. “It’s a disease. It has nothing to do with our character.”was an option she considered, even searching for a bridge nearby to possibly use. “That’s how bad it can get,” she said. “It’s hard to describe. You go down in this deep, dark hole of depression and you don’t think that there’s another minute.

, “I never dealt with all the stuff that happened to me, so it came out sideways, as depression and anxiety. Depression is partly genetic, and I have it on both sides of my family."

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