Is there any evidence that talking about depression openly, or talk-type therapies, help to reduce depression? My experience of colleagues talking openly about these things is that it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, and ultimately makes things worse.
I think you're only thinking that because they're letting it be more visible in order to get support.
The alternative is that they put on a mask to function in society, because they don't want to be a burden, all the while dying inside...
Until they unexpectedly disappear, because they've committed suicide.
