The Disguise Underneath Social Media Glam// Mental Health Helps

By christinelai on 08 Jun 2018

It's never really about the money, the status, the situations. Suicide takes place anywhere and it can happen to anyone. Kate Spade was pronounced date on 5 June 2018 with a suicide note. Her cause of death was confirmed to be death by hanging, leaving a suicide note for daughter but nobody can confirm if the chilling message passing on the media was authentic or fabricated. We'll leave that out in full support of the family's grieving.

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On her passing, Andy Spade, Kate Spade's husband released the following in a statement, "Kate was the most beautiful woman in the world. She was the kindest person I've ever known and my best friend for 35 years. My daughter and I are devastated by her loss, and can't even begin to fathom life without her. We are deeply heartbroken and miss her already. Kate suffered from depression and anxiety for many years. She was actively seeking help and working closely with her doctors to treat her disease, one that takes far too many lives. We were in touch with her the night before and she sounded happy. There was no indication and no warning that she would do this. It was a complete shock. And it clearly wasn't her. There were personal demons she was battling."

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It was just like any other family beneath the riches and glory.

Sources also revealed that Andy Spade and Kate Spade has been separated for 10 months prior to suicide. It wasn't a legal separation and no divorce was mentioned. They simply needed a break,"we ate many meals together as a family and continued to vacation together as a family. We were best friends trying to work through our problems in the best way we knew how. We were together for 35 years. We loved each other very much and simply needed a break"

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Kate Spade New York was launched in 1993, a year before the two was married. It has been a worldwide phenomenon which they eventually sold it off to an investor back in 2006 so Kate could focus on raising their daughter.

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Kate Spade's friend, Kelly Cutrone advocates for suicide after her dear friend's passing, "Depression and anxiety are epidemic in the entertainment and fashion industries. There's a lot of pressure in the fashion business and there's a lot of pain and suffering behind the illusion of glamour, beauty and perfection. Designers are betting on air all the time."

"I have to say that almost everyone I've known who's done this (committed suicide), you couldn't tell beforehand."
Kelly Cutrone

"We were talking and laughing about how it's crazy, we're old (Kate was 55) and we can't believe our kids are this old. We talked about how different the fashion industry is today," Cutrone continued reminiscing, "she seemed like her normal self. But her look is cheery."

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Bringing it closer to home, you can never tell a suicidal person apart from someone who is emotionally healthy. When it is too late, the family is the one who suffers. And sometimes, out of curiosity people paid their lives to satisfy that itch or the devil's calling. It is never too much to love, too embarrassing to shower words of affirmations. It can be that simple to knock someone out of the state of suicide.

After my sister was laid to rest, there was an emptiness in our home, laced with a tinge of bitterness and enveloped with a great sense of loss. We pointed fingers at each other, blamed one another. And when the tears were shed and the shouts exhausted us physically and emotionally, we cried some more, prayed and healed together.

-theAsianparentSingapore

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