Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Monday, May the 2nd, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison.

Naomi Judd and her daughter, Winona, were inducted into the country music Hall of Fame yesterday.

However, only Winona and her sister,

the actress Ashley Judd, were in attendance since their mother had died the day before.

They tweeted on Saturday, today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother

to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered.

We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public.

We are in unknown territory. Naomi Judd's story was truly improbable. The daughter of a gas station owner in Kentucky,

she gave birth to Winona when she was 18 and Ashley four years later.

After she and their father divorced,

she brought up both daughters as a single parent.

She attended nursing school before beginning a singing career with Wynonna.

The duo went on to record 20 top 10 hits, including 15 number ones, and won five Grammy Awards.

However, Naomi struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts for years.

She told People Magazine in 2016, nobody can understand it unless you've

been there. 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. Naomi Judd's struggles are far from unique. Depression rates among U.S. adults

tripled when the pandemic first hit, jumping from 8.5 percent to a staggering 27.8 percent.

However, new research from the Boston University School of Public Health

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