Jimmy Leeds Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2014/10/post_40.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundstrom Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 that's pretty tough. the way he speaks about him, you'd think he was institutionalized but they don't write that in the article. mental illness is really tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njdevs89 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 My friend actually played hockey with him years ago, apparently at one time he was a better player than Michael. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATLL765 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Wow, that's a really awful situation. I can only just barely wrap my head around what it must be like to see someone, especially a family member, go from completely normal to a shell of their former self due to mental illnesses like what is described in the story. A high school gf of mine kinda lost control similarly, but not quite as drastically. She always had some issues, but when I saw her recently when she she asked me for help with a place to stay for a while, she was a totally different person. She would talk to herself, obsess over random objects and was prone to violent outbursts. It was really sad to see someone I knew well and their personality be completely unrecognizable from the way I remembered years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msweet Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 sigh.. that is a painful read We definitely don't know all the facts. Something caused that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaira_Devil_#9 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Still not enough support for people and the families of people with mental illness anywhere in the world. Terribly sad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDog2020 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Man that's tough. I really hope he can recover and turn it around. I hate reading stuff like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BostonNala370 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 There is so much unknown about mental illness. I wish him and the family the best. It's tough on the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Leeds Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 Mental illness is brutal. Luckily my family seems to have escaped it. But policing for 25 years, I saw it up front and it is bad. Some friends too, including a good friend of my wife who killed herself. She was married with 2 young kids. Dreadful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrydevil Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 My father overcame a bout with severe depression in the late 1980s to live a good, productive life. I'm thankful, not everyone beats it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim777 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 It's the SHAME of mental illness that people need to get over - it's an embarrassment to a lot of families to admit someone they know and love has a mental issue that they wouldn't have if they had something like a kidney problem or chronic asthma or something. We all need to overcome that. There's a desperate need for research into mental illness, and support for those who suffer from it; it's unfortunate that governments are able to quietly cut funding year after year because there is so little discussion of the cost to families, individuals, and society as a whole. Hopefully someday something changes for Daniel and he can get better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagknife Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Mental illness is brutal. Luckily my family seems to have escaped it. But policing for 25 years, I saw it up front and it is bad. Some friends too, including a good friend of my wife who killed herself. She was married with 2 young kids. Dreadful. My friend's mom killed herself a few years back, a few years after a divorce. I used to be a teacher before doing my current job and talking a student out of doing something harmful to themselves was one of the scariest things I've ever had to do. I have the utmost sympathy for families and individuals having to handle types of mental illness [whether it be from birth or developed later on in life]. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TackleDummy Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 sigh.. that is a painful read We definitely don't know all the facts. Something caused that. Not necessarily. Late adolescence and early adulthood are the normal onset periods for things like schizophrenia. Someone can have a completely normal childhood, grow to be an adult, then one day the voices start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadDog2020 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Not necessarily. Late adolescence and early adulthood are the normal onset periods for things like schizophrenia. Someone can have a completely normal childhood, grow to be an adult, then one day the voices start. Yep. Amanda Bynes comes to mind right away. She seemed perfectly normal, and then all of the sudden her behavior got stranger and stranger until you see what's happening with her right now. It's terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagknife Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Yep. Amanda Bynes comes to mind right away. She seemed perfectly normal, and then all of the sudden her behavior got stranger and stranger until you see what's happening with her right now. It's terrible. not to make a joke of this but her character on All That was rather freaking telling.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim777 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 not to make a joke of this but her character on All That was rather freaking telling.... Possibly foreshadowing there, but she was still acting from a script. Now the poor thing has seemingly lost the plot completely. She may be a catalyst for change in how we view folks with mental health issues; hopefully they don't simply lock her away or something. I know there are a lot of diseases and syndromes and such out there that require a share of the available research dollars, but few disciplines have lost as much ground as the fight to understand mental illness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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