>> reporter: 35-year-old janae darden told me she was moved by hidz death. >> i have a lot of compassion for him, i know how it feels. >> reporter: she says exercise helps in her daily battle to control the clinical depression she's had since a teenager. >> i see myself in this glass box surrounded by darkness and through that, i can see my healthy self, my happy self and i'm trying to push through it. >> reporter: she says she sometimes has thoughts of death. >> what would it be like if i wasn't here, then i know my depression has tanked and i need to go back and see my therapist. >> reporter: in the bay area alone, about a half million people this year will suffer symptoms of clinical depression. yet, because of stigma and misunderstanding, many will not get the help they need. this chapter of the national alliance for the mentally ill, robin williams' suicide resonated with kimberly. >> what my darkest moments looked like were, i don't know