Posted on 08/12/2014 1:28:29 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
I’m not normally one to write a blog post about a dead celebrity, but then I suppose there is no such thing.
There are only living celebrities, not dead ones. In death, wealth and prestige decay and we are brought into a new reality, the only reality there is or ever was — one which, for much better or much worse, doesn’t care at all about our popularity or our money.
The death of Robin Williams is significant not because he was famous, but because he was human, and not just because he left this world, but particularly because he apparently chose to leave it.
Suicide.
(Excerpt) Read more at themattwalshblog.com ...
This ought a be an interesting thread.
Excerpting a blog, bad mouthing the recently deceased, and using Jesus to solve brain chemistry...
You haven’t a clue as to what you’re talking about. Depression is a serious physical and mental illness. The brain is a organ of the body that suffers from many different forms of physical illness. Depression kills. I know. I suffered from it for years until I got help. All the prayer in the world didn’t help.
Hope this helps make it more interesting, here’s Saint Robin Williams on the Vatican and Homosexuality:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M1XVE9W67g
I hear you. The guy ought to shut up.
Who is this Matt Walsh and what are his qualifications as an expert on this matter?
The guys pic on the blog looks like pajama boy.
A guy goes into a 12-step program and has remarkable success (>20 years of sobriety), then thinks he has the compulsion licked.
Starts drinking again and rapidly succumbs to alcohol abuse again and cannot stop this time, regardless of how many times he tries to re-enter the 12-step program.
Hits what is called "the jumping off point", then suicide.
No one seems to be speaking about this end result of alcohol addiction.
So we already have the coroner’s report in our hands? I thought it took a little longer than that.
I see your point and have to wonder to what extent the deep, deep depression people like him have is their irreconcilable beliefs and their contradictory choices. The amount of cognitive dissonance that some of these types of people have must lead to depression. I believe the choices he made, including to take his life, were the cause of his depression. Depression didn’t cause his suicide; he chose suicide over other alternatives including reconciling and humbling himself before God. Even choosing to be a conservative will make a person happier because it’s a sign that you see the world as it is and not as the utopians say it should be. You’re better prepared to deal with the fact that some people are bums if you accept that many of them are choosing to be bums; it’s not a capitalist conspiracy that causes people to want to be a bum.
Just hope you don’t become seriously depressed for whatever reason.
Some people just get sick of living, I don’t understand it.
Judge not, that ye be not judged. ~Matthew 7:1
Try the other way around. Substance abuse is a SYMPTOM of a larger problem in ones life.
Self medicating with alcohol/drugs is a classic attempt at self managing a depressive disorder or other mental illness. I know, I’ve see it up close and personal.
A relative nobody and none.
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