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Post by magazinewhore on Jul 26, 2011 12:49:56 GMT -4
Jesus, she'd work out and then walk 25 miles home? Wow.
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Post by GoldenFleece on Jul 26, 2011 13:47:04 GMT -4
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Post by Ginger on Jul 26, 2011 13:49:11 GMT -4
25 minutes. 25 miles would take about 8 hours.
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Post by LurkerNan on Jul 26, 2011 14:10:49 GMT -4
Yeah, that makes no sense...
Ever get the feeling the Daily Mail just makes stuff up?
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Post by bitca on Jul 26, 2011 14:38:31 GMT -4
I think a lot of people who commit suicide are so messed up in their thinking that they believe their family will be better off without them. I've heard this so many times that it hurts. "My kids would be better off without me." From mothers! I can't imagine how much despair you'd have to be in to even think that way. All I can say is, I can't even judge anyone for being an addict or suicidal. IA with everyone that said if you're chemically imbalanced, don't get treated for it (or treatments don't work - it can take a handful of times before anti-depressants/psychotics are prescribed correctly, which can be hell in itself. You don't know if they're going to work until 4-6 weeks, etc.) and whatnot, sometimes you just can't see the light at the end of the tunnel to dig yourself out of it. Once you add drinking and/or drugs on top of that... It's a ridiculously slippery slope. Yeah, Amy had the resources, but maybe she just didn't give a shit enough about herself to use them. |
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Post by Neurochick on Jul 26, 2011 16:19:14 GMT -4
I have compassion for them all. It's all random. Some people get sober and some never do, some stay sober for years and then slip and some never slip. I've never slipped in 24 years, but I don't frown upon people who do slip after 20 plus years.
Very true. I'm 51 and I've seen how someone's life can turn upside down in a matter of HOURS. No one really, really 100% knows what they will or won't do.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2011 17:05:43 GMT -4
I feel sorry for her family.
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Post by NappingAthena on Jul 26, 2011 17:06:56 GMT -4
Shit happens, and some people can handle it, and some can't. For every Russell Brand or Cory Monteith from Glee or Robert Downey Jr, there's many more Amy Winehouse's. Addiction is a crapshoot of a disease.
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Post by Ginger on Jul 26, 2011 20:47:27 GMT -4
And Brand, Monteith, or Downey Jr could easily wind up at rock bottom again. Even Charlie F. Sheen for a time was sober and proclaiming the wonders of getting clean and starting a new life, and look at where he is now.
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Post by Wol on Jul 27, 2011 2:00:35 GMT -4
I kinda like that she was cremated. Jews actually are not supposed to be cremated, but she walked to the beat of her own drummer in life, there's some symmetry to her doing it in death as well.
One of the saddest thing I ever heard about RDJ was from an agent who worked with him many years ago. For a long time he only used when he wasn't working - when he was on a set he was clean and a total pro (I believe "Home for the Holidays" was the first time he was using while working). The agent said he only used when he wasn't working because he "couldn't stand being just Bob." That's when I knew I would never understand an addict's mind set. I looked at RDJ and saw genius and beauty and humor. He looked at himself and saw something he hated so much he had to self-medicate. That killed me.
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