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A Facebook message that has been shared more than 230,000 times points out that the public knows more about celebrities' battles with breast cancer and heart disease than their struggles with mental illness.

\"I knew when Patrick Swayze was battling pancreatic cancer. I know that Cynthia Nixon is a breast cancer survivor. I know that Selena Gomez has lupus and recently had a kidney transplant,\" Claudia Herrera wrote on Facebook in the wake of Spade's death. \"I know that Dave Letterman suffers from heart disease. I know that Lance Armstrong is a testicular cancer survivor.\"

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\"But I didn’t know that Kate Spade suffered from depression. Or that Robin Williams did,\" she wrote. \"Because somehow society has made it more acceptable to talk about breasts and testicles than about the mind and the chemicals and hormones it releases and controls and the messages it relays.\"

Draper, of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, says the stories of suicide attempt survivors must also be told to create a \"contagion of hope.\"

\"For every one person dies, we don’t read about the other 280 who think seriously about suicide but do not kill themselves,\" he said. \"Those are the stories that we must pay attention to.\"

Draper explained, \"It helps people be reminded that they can, and typically do, get through this, and here’s how.\"

ABC News' Medical Unit residents Eric Ascher, Sima Patel and Karine Tawagi contributed to this report.

If you are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741-741.

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