Toronto Raptors swingman DeMar DeRozan was glad his honesty with his own struggles with depression has had an effect in motivating Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love to share some of his own.

Love recently opened up in The Players' Tribune and spoke about having panic attacks mid-game, something rather unknown to the rest of his teammates and fellow NBA players.

“It made me feel, you know, pretty damn good, honestly,” DeRozan said about Love's essay, according to ESPN. “So it's cool to be able to help somebody.”

“It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day,” DeRozan told The Toronto Star. “Sometimes… it gets the best of you, where times everything in the whole world's on top of you.”

Love's essay shared a vulnerable part of himself in an otherwise league of superheroes, perhaps relating to the everyday fan in ways no other 6-foot-10 millionaire human being could.

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“Mental health is an invisible thing, but it touches all of us at some point or another,” Love wrote. “It's part of life. Like DeMar said, ‘You never know what that person is going through.'”

The NBA has rapidly become one of the warmest receptions to athletes' voices, ranging from political views to social activism, and now even opening the door for players to speak freely about their own internal struggles.

If this takes place as expected, it won't be long until other players gather the strength like Love and DeRozan and share some of their own struggles as well.