I hope Ilya is at peace. I'd like to speak to anyone who might feel, now or in the future, as desperate as Ilya must have. Please consider this: by nature our

I hope Ilya is at peace. I'd like to speak to anyone who might feel, now or in the future, as desperate as Ilya must have. Please consider this: by nature our own pain and suffering strikes us as intensely personal and private, but the truth is the experience is universal. For different reasons, at different times in our lives, we all get served heaping helpings of grief, desperation, regret, shame, disappointment - sometimes all at once. And, in the case of people with depression, sometimes for no discernible reason. The most crushing aspect of depression and its cohorts is the false perception that your pain is so diabolically personal that it cannot be shared or understood, to say nothing of being addressed or overcome. tl;dr you're never alone, in fact more people love and respect you than you know - try to never forget that.