I think, certainly, the type of awareness that exists now about depression and mental illness didn't really exist when Dave was coming out with that story in the fall of 2008. I think he was kind of a trailblazer and was one of the first people who came forward who was currently suffering with it, as I said before.
During that Bell Let's Talk Day, Michael Landsberg did an hour-long show. He had a few different sports heroes, including Clara Hughes and Stéphane Richer. Stéphane Richer was the one who really hit home with me. When I watched that show that night it was bittersweet, because I was really pleased to see that these people were coming forward and being so open. Stéphane Richer admitted in that interview that after he had just won a Stanley Cup, he was in the Stanley Cup parade, and four days later he attempted suicide. If that interview had been on four years ago, and Dave had seen that, I think that might have made a difference for somebody like him, because he would have been like “Yes, okay, somebody gets it. Somebody I can relate to understands what this is like, and I'm not the only one suffering this terrible disease that I can't talk about and that no one will understand.”