how horribly sad!
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francienol — 17 years ago(July 14, 2008 06:23 AM)
It is very sad. Medication is not always the answer, though. Too often these days we turn to this or that pill to fix us. beep prozac. Psychology is theory, not fact, and ADHD was invented by drug companies and substantiated by psychologists. This is the only time I have agreed with Tom Cruise, well, also his decision to beep Katie Holmes.
Sorry, I disagree. You would not post the same thoughts regarding severe high blood pressure, uncontrolled diabetes or heart disease. Meaning, you would not say you don't need meds for your high blood pressure! Go ahead have a stroke! Would you say beep digoxin, I doubt it. Depression like the diseases I mentioned and many other mental illnesses are BIOLOGICALLY BASED illnesses. Ha! Even insurance companies are owning up to that fact given the substantial proof as seen on PETSCANS and the like. Do you really think health insurance companies would give up all that cash on whimsy? Do you think insurance companies are just being charitable? Yes, therapy plays a big role in helping a person cope and better understand his mental illness and also change negative thinking but medication and therapy together is best f5b4or most people with depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders.
I work as a school nurse with children and some DO have ADHD, I've seen it for myself. Maybe drug companies made up cancer too. There's nothing like a conspiracy theorist to shed darkness on a subject.
You are NOT looking at a fan of pharmaceutical companies, except when it comes to their R&D depts. Many of these companies have great scientists working within, some are Nobel Prize winners.
Psychology is not all theory, again as evidenced by brain scans. Brains respond positively to therapy. Yes, it is theory in part, only because man's brain has not figured out man's brain completely. All medicine started out as theory once. Until the thermometer was invented we could only theorize that someone had a fever. So maybe you would have relied on your theory statement then??? That only theory rhetoric is as thin as Trump's hairlinepeople only employ it when they have nothing useful to add to a conversation.
According to your THEORY, until we get hard proof that a disease/disorder exists we should ignore it???
In the meantime you and Tom Cruise and his ilk can play doctor together.
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Indie_Mod — 16 years ago(October 22, 2009 06:40 AM)
I also agree whole-heartedly with francienol. I think it is common to hear people say how depression and AD/HD are made up by the drug industry. The truth is it's completely neurological.
Since the subject at hand is depression, it's not about taking a pill and having an artificial and relentless happiness mask depression. It's about correcting the serritonin imbalance which may be causing an unnessesary and unhealthy depression.
Prozac gets a bad rap since it is the most well-known and the first SSRI (selective serritonin reuptake inhibitor). Anti-depressants aren't for everyone. Depending on the indivudual, he might have bad reactions to the side effects which wouldn't be condusive to his depression, but for some people, it is a great thing.
I'll admit that I have actually started taking an anti-depressant this year and it has done me a world of good. Unfortunately we'll never know if it could have helped Chubbuck or Dwyer, but it has helped a lot of other people.
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lkjandersen — 15 years ago(September 12, 2010 04:20 AM)
Nothing impulsive about this. This was planned into the last detail. She actually wrote a script to be read by whoever took over her anchorspot, detailing what her research had told would likely be happening over the next 12 or so hours. Yes, she researched suicide, ostensibly for a story. She brought the gun to the studio and hid it exactly where she could get it when sitting at the anchordesk. She changed the format the morning, going directly to the desk instead of to the interview. She had it planned for a while. In fact, it was so calculated that I am tempted to call her a selfish cow for very intentionally bringing ev1c84eryone into her suicide. It was not fair to the innocent people watching in the homes.
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shakesphere1-geo — 15 years ago(September 20, 2010 12:44 PM)
I just recently found out about this. I didn't hear about it locally since I was only two years old in 1974. She must have been very upset with her life to do what she did. From what I read she didn't know how to relate with people very well. She tried but she couldn't do it. I saw a color photo of her and she was attractive. It's to bad that no one she was close to her could see the signs that she was in trouble. Who knows if it was some sort of neurological problem or just simple depression.
I would guess that there is no footage left of her suicide. The only copy was taken by police and then eventually turned over to her family. If it was a member of my family I would have burned the video to keep it from being duplicated. -
ElectricWarlock — 14 years ago(November 12, 2011 04:49 AM)
By committing suicide on live television, it's obvious that she WANTED people to see her death. And now she won't get what she wanted, not even after death.
"Come, fly the teeth of the wind. Share my wings."