RICHMOND, Va. -- May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the mother of former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst is drawing attention to the struggle of high-functioning depression and just how lethal it can be. Kryst died by suicide in 2022. "You can be beautiful and accomplished, and brilliantly, wickedly smart and fine and goofy and entertaining, and you can also be battling depression," Kryst's mother April Simpkins told CBS 6. "You can also be battling a mental illness.