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Robin Williams Dead (https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=285623)

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Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare (Post 10813563)

Robin had cocaine addiction and alcoholism issues he has dealt with in his life through the years.

He stopped the coke in the early 80's. The death of Belushi and birth of his son woke him up. He never returned to cocaine. Alcohol he returned to after years of not drinking.

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 10813624)

He was an alcoholic. He had admitted himself into the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center mid this year for continued treatment. Married only to his new wife three years. ( a graphic designer)

IMO alcoholics drink to suppress some pain from years of rooting for the Chiefs.

Fixed :thumb:

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 10813631)

He stopped the coke in the early 80's. The death of Belushi and birth of his son woke him up. He never returned to cocaine. Alcohol he returned to after years of not drinking.

still those addiction issues are a sign of individuals who are dependent on escaping reality because of a bipolar personality

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Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare (Post 10813647)

still those addiction issues are a sign of individuals who are dependent on escaping reality because of a bipolar personality

Well yeah. I think he chose alcohol as his poison though instead later on. He was sober for a long time though.

Hangover depression for a long time alcoholic is an entirely different beast of sick and irrational thinking.

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Originally Posted by Bearcat (Post 10812716)

I think that's kind of the problem... people judge it with "well, I've been down before and I haven't killed myself." Like Iowanian said, depression isn't teenage angst or 'feeling down' or relatively fleeting thoughts about suicide (not to compare your thoughts, specifically).

I've had it twice in my life, following severe losses in life. Both times I didn't want to live. I eventually moved out of both the first one taking 3 months for the worst of it to pass, with improvements over a year with it getting less and less. The second was really rough and I was older. That took 4 years to get through completely. Much longer than the first. Occasionally, if I focus on it or am put in a situation to talk of the events, brings back some anger or melancholy but I'd rather just move on. Time can be your friend. The first was age 20 with the break-up of an engagement the second was severe financial losses from fraud and embezzlement of a significant amount of money leaving me broke. It can be overcome but everyone's different.

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 10813549)

You're still thinking about this like a rational person. This is clinical/major depression we're talking about here, not just somebody having a bad day, feeling down and deciding they can't take it anymore.

Basically you're trying to make sense out of something that just doesn't make sense. Somebody who commits suicide because of this kind of depression doesn't think like you think. They can't think like you, unless they're being treated. And sometimes not even then.

This is actually one of the bigger issues in the country right now. Mental health, that is. Some of it isn't stuff you can just tough guy your way though.

This will be my last comment on this because quite honestly I'd prefer to focus on more positive and entertaining things on my day off.

Many posters responding to me seem to have the opinion that I'm ignorant of depression/bipolar disorder or have no experience with it.

Quite the opposite. I'm not going to get into a pissing contest over who's pain is greater or "true fan" arguments over mental health.

I'm not saying depression isn't real, isn't serious, or isn't dangerous. Quite the opposite - and frankly I think the almost forgiving attitude towards suicide is dangerous itself.

I'm saying not everyone, or even most people, that get it kill themselves. Death is not the definitive outcome to this illness...

Anyone else notice that ever since the Jacko death we have to hear about it for weeks every time a celeb dies? Enough already....

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Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 10813549)

If the brain is broke, how can it make correct decisions? Truly understand a thing? Make good rational decisions?

Drugs ruin this country. They need to be eliminated all together. Drug dealers should get life in the pokey. Its that simple

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Originally Posted by Hog Farmer (Post 10813637)

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Fixed :thumb:

How are you supposed to jerk off pigs if they're fixed?!?!

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Originally Posted by Tuckdaddy (Post 10813797)

Drugs ruin this country. They need to be eliminated all together. Drug dealers should get life in the pokey. Its that simple

What an effective strategy. Why haven't we tried that already!

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Originally Posted by BucEyedPea (Post 10813624)

I read he hadn't relapsed though. Even when he admitted himself
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Originally Posted by Tuckdaddy (Post 10813797)

Drugs ruin this country. They need to be eliminated all together. Drug dealers should get life in the pokey. Its that simple

Yea the war on drugs. What an effective program. :thumb: