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i don't understand how rich people can commit suicide

brianmanahan

brianmanahan

Lifer
i always tell myself that if i was to the point where i was going to commit suicide, i would just stop doing things i hate and decide to spend my money doing what i want. i would quit my job and do things that make me happy

and i just have a paltry amount of money compared to someone like robin williams. how can someone that rich commit suicide? he had it better than %99.9999999 on the planet! he could do pretty much anything he wanted to!
 
Some of the most miserable people I know are filthy rich. They have to invent problems and drama because money is not one of them. Not only that, the government wants a disproportionate cut.
 
If somebodys brain doesn't maintain the proper balnce of neurotransmitters they'll get horribly depressed no matter how wonderful their life is.
If it's true that he had bipolar disorder there may have been times when he was awake for days in a manic state similar to being on meth alternating with hoorible depression.
 
brianmanahan said:
i always tell myself that if i was to the point where i was going to commit suicide, i would just stop doing things i hate and decide to spend my money doing what i want. i would quit my job and do things that make me happy

and i just have a paltry amount of money compared to someone like robin williams. how can someone that rich commit suicide? he had it better than %99.9999999 on the planet! he could do pretty much anything he wanted to!
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I don`t understand how such a poor person could make so many ignorant statements.....
 
Whenever Richard Cory went downtown,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean-favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes, richer than a king –
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
--E.A. Robinson, 1897

Reportedly, not a new phenomena.

Uno
 
I guess it comes to show that money != happiness. Though, it still baffles me, because with that much money one could pack it in at any given time and go live like a king somewhere nice.

Though being diagnosed with parkinsons is probably what did him in. Depression + reality that your life is going to slowly become more and more crappy health wise. You can't buy health with money.
 
godmode doesnt just ruin video games. think about it.

do some research on clinical depression. its a chemical imbalance not just "having a bad day". its not a joke nor is it funny. lost a brother and a good friend to it.
 
brianmanahan said:
i always tell myself that if i was to the point where i was going to commit suicide, i would just stop doing things i hate and decide to spend my money doing what i want. i would quit my job and do things that make me happy

and i just have a paltry amount of money compared to someone like robin williams. how can someone that rich commit suicide? he had it better than %99.9999999 on the planet! he could do pretty much anything he wanted to!
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Except not really. He was in deep. Clearly if all of his staggering debt were paid off and he had a massive fortune to sit on for the rest of his days he likely would have held on.
 
who? said:
If somebodys brain doesn't maintain the proper balnce of neurotransmitters they'll get horribly depressed no matter how wonderful their life is
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Pretty much this. You keep coming up with something that you feel might make you happy, but it's, at best, fleeting. Money or not, eventually you will run out of drive to do things that may change your mood. What's worse, the more you burn money to try to be happy, the more assured you become that happiness is impossible. It's damn near an inescapable paradox.

The one thing that money will enable to be sought, that many are unable to, is help. No worries about health insurance or anything- find the best doctors, get the best drugs. If need be, go the best inpatient treatment centers.

But again, the more these things fail, the more hopeless everything seems.

Not to mention that there are just things that money cannot buy. Sometimes they're things you might have, but your broken brain tells you that you don't (e.g. love).

I may have some experience with these things. Not the rich part. But rich or not, it's just variations on the same themes.
 
brianmanahan said:
i always tell myself that if i was to the point where i was going to commit suicide, i would just stop doing things i hate and decide to spend my money doing what i want. i would quit my job and do things that make me happy

and i just have a paltry amount of money compared to someone like robin williams. how can someone that rich commit suicide? he had it better than %99.9999999 on the planet! he could do pretty much anything he wanted to!
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Arent you like 15 yrs old or something?.....come back and ask the question 15 yrs from now!
 
That's basically what makes depression...depression. Long term depression isn't usually tied to direct, external causes. It's a chemical imbalance and negative mental feedback loops. People could have everything on paper, an attractive wife who loves them, couple healthy kids, well paying and fulfilling (at least at first) job, nice house, lot of vacation time, and it doesn't matter. Someone can be extremely depressed and know that they have the perfect life on paper but if anything knowing that makes them feel even shittier for how shitty they feel. They'll even try to cover up their depression with a veneer of external happiness and that isolates them even more because you feel you can't be yourself and talk honestly to anyone else, especially your friends. Attitudes like the OP's keeps the stigma of depression going and could keep people who need help from reaching out. They prefer death to end their personal hell than reaching out to a friend or family member.
 
depression doesn't care about your income, and he was being taken to the cleaners via an ex wife... selling assets he could no longer afford, failed TV Show, add in a Parkinsons and you have enough to break A LOT of people.

from a personal POV going from a well off life, doing a job i loved.. to getting by (but still above national average) with a job that's "meh" i can see how it could happen easily.
 
OverVolt said:
Robin Williams sold his last house to pay his bills. He paid like $35million in alimony. He was screwed. His show got cancelled. He was probably looking at jail time if unable to pay alimony.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...-for-husband-stuck-with-lifetime-alimony.html

Same thing for Robin Williams.

He wasn't rich anymore!
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Exactly. He went from a guy who had everything, to a guy who had nothing (money wise). Sure people loved him, but love doesn't pay the bills.

Plus, money isn't everything. You can be rich as balls but if you have no true friends or real human interaction that is meaningful, who cares...You'll still be miserable after a while.
 
z1ggy said:
Plus, money isn't everything. You can be rich as balls but if you have no true friends or real human interaction that is meaningful, who cares...You'll still be miserable after a while.
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*Ding ding ding* We have a winner :thumbsup: Money can't buy legit friends or love.
 
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