WORCESTER, Mass. - During this Mental Health Awareness Month, the death of a two-time PGA Tour winner is putting a spotlight on the importance of raising awareness.

The former president of the American Psychiatric Association said Grayson Murray's death is a tragedy and there's still a lot of work to do to get every American access to high-quality mental health care to prevent suicide and needless suffering.

Murray's parents said Sunday their 30-year-old son took his own life, just one day after he withdrew from a PGA Tour event.

Dr. Rebecca Brendel said mental illness can affect anyone and it's important to remember no matter what things look like on the outside, people can still be struggling on the inside.

"Mental illness, like physical illness, is treatable and it's really important first to talk about the symptoms and to get help so that treatment can start," Brendel said. “It's really, really important that we each one step at a time also check in with each other and ask each other how we're feeling the same way we might ask someone how they're feeling if they had seasonal allergies or they've had a cold or they've had some other kind of illness. We really need to shift the dialog so that we're helping each other fight stigma and take care of each other and help each other get treatment for mental illness."

Murray's parents did ask that the tournament in Fort Worth, T.X. continue this past weekend.

Grief counselors were on site there as well as at the Korn Ferry Tour event.

If you or someone you know is struggling you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. It's available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.