Why did many artists commit suicide?

[Pyron]

Looking at statistics I see double to ten times more higher rates to dying to unnatural causes (suicide included) for artists compared to normal population. pop and rock stars live on average 25 years less as well. Dunno how reliable are these numbers, but it's certain that celebrities have a higher chance to suicide than the norm.

Money and fame aren't remedies for sadness and depression. Maybe they are worse as possession add more pressure. The more you have, the more you need to do to protect what you have. Also, friendship at this level may be rarer as you have less assurance for who is there for you truly instead of your fame and money. Especially with more prominent/senior artists. They already achieved a lot. Some may think they'd have less pressure because of that. However, in reality they may feel even more pressure.

There aren't much/enough studies about this, but celebrities face stuff normal folks don't. For instance, the constant scrutiny and pressure of the public from being in the spotlight. We don't know the true extend of the mental damage those circumstances can cause. Most of them just wing it. Because they have more resources, we think they need less support which may be just the opposite. They may need even more help than regular folks. Also, artists tend to pursuit perfection of their art. I don't think singers/dancers/entertainers aren't different in this regard. This trait could cause mental problems.

Also, with increasingly access to social media, they face harassment in a much higher level. Watching that show about hate comments with Sulli, they mentioned they can get paranoid and affect their relationship with the world outside.

They can't even do normal thing like go to hospital as they may fear that private information may leak out (and more often than not it will like airport schedule and such) or it may cause misunderstanding and rumors that may jeopardize their career.

In SK they have their own unique cultural and social situations that may contribute more to this as well. Idols have very irregular lives as well. They can't socialize normally. Their diets are very restrictive, specially at developing ages. And sleeping hours are very irregular. These by itself could cause serious mental illnesses over time if left unchecked (and for most cases they are left unchecked till it's too late).

In reality mental healthy is still poorly grasped everywhere. We learnt a lot about the brain in the last decade, but we probably are still far from total understanding. Also, lot of us still operate on very outdated views of mental care.

This is for the normal folks. For people in exceptional situations we probably understand their mental health even less.

For suicide prevention, it has to be a collective effort in order to be effective IMO. I think in celebrity's case, we leave this to their discretion or think he or she should seek help individually. Again, I don't think this is effective actually. When this happens, it's usually the last moments and it's a die roll basically. Some may get lucky. Some won't. Prevention should probably be done in a larger scale and be a constant vigilance. Sadly entertainment industry can be the worse at talking about these issues.