Remember this girl? She just killed herself :(

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
maybe she was on antidepressants?

Antidepressants a Suicide Risk for Young Adults
Study Says Cases Double for Those 18 to 25 Using Medicine to Control Depression

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...3/AR2006121300452.html

From the article:

After concerns were raised in the Netherlands about the suicide risk, there was a 22 percent drop from 2003 to 2005 in antidepressant prescriptions for patients under 18 and a 50 percent increase in suicides, said Robert Gibbons, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The number of suicides went from 34 to 51.

'What we are seeing is the early signs of an epidemic of suicide in children who are no longer being treated for their depression," Gibbons said in an interview. U.S. suicide data for 2005 is not yet available, but Gibbons said the FDA's black box warning had caused a similar decline in prescriptions among children here. He predicted dozens more suicides as a result and warned that any expansion of the black box would have a similar impact on adults.

 

[rpanic]

sad story 🙁

 

[Acanthus]

On a strange side note, im currently attending the same college she graduated from.

 

[sutahz]

suicide is for the weak.

 

[Syringer]

Kind of goes back to my point here.. http://forums.anandtech.com/me...=2167830&enterthread=y

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: sutahz
suicide is for the weak.

That cultural distinction is what makes depression in men a fatal disease.

"Depression is for the weak, men are supposed to be strong."

It's often that factor alone that keeps many men from seeking treatment for depression, which eventually leads to suicidality and death.

 

[Pocatello]

I remember her. Sad story.

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: Kadarin

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
She probably got depressed when she realized that being a child pilot phenom wouldn't get her anywhere in the adult world, and she she finally came to terms that she was just another person, got jealous, and now decided to make another name for herself.

Ummm... or she could've just had clinical depression?

Or a chemical imbalance.

Same difference.

 

[QED]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: QED

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
She probably got depressed when she realized that being a child pilot phenom wouldn't get her anywhere in the adult world, and she she finally came to terms that she was just another person, got jealous, and now decided to make another name for herself.

Ummm... or she could've just had clinical depression?

It must stem from somewhere. Saying you're just depressed with no reason is a load of horse crap. It's more like the person doesn't want to face their issue and just wants to hide from it and not take charge of their life.

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for someone that kills them self.

That might be some people...

But clinical depression and mental illness are real. Just because you can't "see it" doesn't make any less of an illness. You can see with our own eyes the effects that certain chemicals (such as drugs) can have on your state of mind. But what do you do when it is your own body that is altering the necessary chemicals for normal brain function?