Posted on 07/09/2010 1:27:33 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I’m not offended at all. A few psychiatrists have fringe ideas and detract from the mainstream, who by and large are legitimate practitioners.
I’m not a psychiatrist, but I can certainly assure you that depression is a genuine disease characterized by abnormal brain chemistry. It responds in many cases to treatment with drugs that act on those disordered chemical pathways.
He shouldn’t have done that. I feel for his family but mostly because this guy committed the selfish and cowardly act of suicide. Now, everyone else pays.
Not included in the article - but a poster on that site calculates he was about 47 years old.
Very sad and prayers to his family.
Yeah, he and Sam Bowie were quite a force in the middle. IIRC, they should have won the NCAA one year, but they completely fell apart against Georgetown in the second half. Mel never quite lived up to his potential - word was that he didn't have the self-discipline to get in top-notch physical condition.
I agree, and statistics show a correlation.
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