Linda Bowles Committed Suicide

The Paradise Post ^ | May 15, 2003 | Rick Silva

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: "Maybe you need some meds. "

Typical Soviet style thinking. The "dissidents" are "insane." And as for why you cannot understand what I wrote, I don't know where to begin.....

[wardaddy]

Bump.

[GOP_1900AD]

RE: "I don't believe Ritalin was around in the 70s. "

You have revealed profound ignorance to me and all reading this thread with this statement. Plus one more thing, why would I lie about something I care so much about? You offend me.

[GunRunner]

Wow, that's a lot more intelligent argument than "Anti-depressents should be banned!"

Maybe I would have given your arguments more merit if you had started off that way instead.

[sinkspur]

You offend me.

Good. People who ridicule anti-depressant medication TODAY deserve to be offended, often. Anecdotal stories about one person who had a bad drug experience is not indicative of the general experience.

As to Ritalin, you're right. It was patented in 1950, though it did not become widely prescribed until the 1980s, when ADHD became "fashionable."

[cgk]

Heck from what I can tell based on the growth curve if anti depressant prescriptions, most of the world will be deemed to "need" them within the next 20 years!

I agree with this; from a lot of what I've read and heard. I see a lot of people turning to medication to alleviate problems that never needed medication to treat before. I would like to think that yes, life is hard, and in order to get through it you have to work at it. I'm not specifically speaking of extremes - suicide attempts, proven chemical imbalances, etc. But people needing pills to get through the day to day trials of life, I cannot understand.

I can only speak from my own experience: I've been through cancer twice, have MS now, and have lived mostly on the borderline of poverty, struggling day to day to keep sane, let alone keep afloat. I've managed all this without choosing pills. Even when I was prescribed them by a doctor for "panic attacks" I gave the benefit of the doubt to the expert, tried it, then felt it was making me worse, so I stopped. I felt much better afterwards. Strong support systems from family and friends count for a lot - maybe all, for those of us who haven't chosen pills as our lifelines. My husband and family have been there when I've needed them. It's sad to read about people who don't have that kind of support system.

I'm certainly not denouncing those who need them (scientifically) - examples above. But using them to cope - as a crutch, I cannot understand.

[lodwick]

What a loss.

RIP Linda.

[Xenalyte]

Bowles, 51, whose column appeared in the Chico Enterprise-Record, the Houston Post, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Arkansas Democ-rat-Gazette and WorldNetDaily.com, reportedly never recovered from the loss of her husband Warren. She also appeared on and was a frequent guest host for Liveline with Bruce Ses-sions show on KPAY.

Not for a very long time, they didn't. The Post has been dead here in Houston lo, these many years.

[kegler4]

I took Ritalin in the 1960s, so it was around in the 70s.

Sorry Ritalin was "evil" for somebody you knew but it helped me get through school without being sent to juvenile hall. And for those who think all I needed was a good swat on the butt, my parents did that, too. It did "NOT" lead to any kind of drug spiral. My brain remains relatively intact.

[bootless]

OMG, I am just STUNNED. God bless her soul. I heard her on KSFO all the time, too, and if I recall correctly, Officer Vic was just in love with her voice. Rest well, Linda, we miss you.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I had no idea of this very sad news. My, what a talented and funny lady. This is heartbreaking.

Prayers for her daughter after losing both parents in such a short time. May God help her find peace and may she realize the respect and love that so many had for her mother.

[ellery]

Anti depressants should be banned or vastly reduced in usage as they are an huge mechanism by which the forces of societal atomization undermine particularly children but even as we see here adults.

I respectfully disagree with you -- severe mental illness is often physiological in nature, and for these illnesses, anti-depressants are a godsend and literally a matter of life and death. In many tragedies where anti-depressants are involved, the media/lawyers confuse cause and effect -- they blame the medications as a cause, rather than the underlying depression (an analogy: many patients who die of diabetes are taking insulin -- but it does not follow that the insulin treatment is the cause of death). That said, medicating children is a different matter entirely.

[rintense]

died April 30 at Merced-area hospital after she committed suicide,

I'll nit-pick here. You can't die after committing suicide because you'd already be dead. You can die after *attempting* suicide though.

[Ann Archy]

I am sad and very disappointed. Suicide is the MOST SELFISH thing to do....what about her daughter??? Couldn't she have thought about her??

Linda was the only person I ever wrote to to tell how much I admired her clear thinking writing. I had wondered why I hadn't read her lately.

[CyberAnt]

Well ... while I don't agree with her method, now she and her beloved are together in heaven.

[beckett]

Stunning. Boy she could write like a dream too.

How small, of all that human hearts endure
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

Dr. Samuel Johnson

[george wythe]

Prayers for her daughter after losing both parents in such a short time.

Prayers said.

[Uncle Hal]

She was occasionally the guest on the KSFO morning show.I knew her husband had died but I did not know she was so depressed. She was a true conservative. All to many of our conservatives are passing on and leaving us.

[A-teamMom]

How sad... I'm sorry she felt such despair. Depression is so scary. I trust God takes into account our human failings that we can't seem to overcome. I teach my kids that no matter what happens, God loves us and will care for us.

I have two beautiful sons in heaven. I try to live a righteous life so I will see them again.

[OldFriend]

RIP Linda Bowles.