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I involuntarily gasped for air. This isn't someone I expected would die for a long time. Depression is a silent beast, and the stigma around talking about these
by warent 8y ago
I involuntarily gasped for air. This isn't someone I expected would die for a long time. Depression is a silent beast, and the stigma around talking about these problems is fatal as ever.
Anthony was inspirational to me in part because, among many reasons, though he lived his life in a very unusual way he was still successful and always adventurous.
The world has suffered a great loss today.
- tcbawo 8y agoVery sad, indeed. The same age as another author and larger than life figure, Ernest Hemingway.
- vixen99 8y agoAnd even sadder for his 10 year old daughter who will live this experience while most of us are focusing on other things in a day or so.
- arwhatever 8y agoIf this is indeed a depression-based suicide (I haven't read all of the details yet; they probably aren't even fully available), then it makes a rather profound statement about depression, because who didn't like this guy? Everyone really liked him, and he has produced years of excellent programming.
- oldsklgdfth 8y agoI really try to downplay the depression-based suicide angle - at least for my own sanity. I like to think that large part of depression is based on circumstances, I leave out the clinical cases that have underlying physiological causes. If you are unhappy enough to end your life, then there are probably things that you can change to stop feeling that way, i.e. job, relationships, friends, habits. In a lot of ways this make sense to me, he was probably under a lot of pressure to be the guy that everyone really liked. Created this unrealistic expectation that was stressful to meet. Add in poor habits, maybe strained relationship and friends to lean on. It's not hard for people to feel like there is not point in going on with life. EDIT: I am open to being wrong and invite a discussion of others opinions.
- Miltnoid 8y agoYou might like to think that, but its not an honest representation of the majority of suicides. Most people who kill themselves do it, not for circumstantial reasons, but physiological ones like clinical depression.
- oldsklgdfth 8y agoI can see that. Would you be so kind as to point me in a direction to get more infos on this?
- staticautomatic 8y agoI'm not sure it's true that most people who kill themselves suffer from clinical depression (diagnosed or undiagnosed).
- hackermailman 8y agoMany people who try and kill themselves, according to friends who are staff at peer run suicide prevention clinics, do so because of a temporary insanity. They aren't depressed, they just sort of lose their mind for a few hours and if they survive the attempt have no idea how they ended up almost killing themselves. Everybody assumes these people are routinely depressed all the time but they tell you otherwise, that it was a delerious state they were in, unable to reason rationally about what they were doing.
- qume 8y agoThis is a very important point to understand to help people who are in that mode. Dont let them be alone and keep them talking. It will pass in an hour or less.
- leeter 8y agoI'm saddened to say I didn't gasp, I was more saddened that his demons had finally claimed him. Bourdain struggled with addiction in the past and stated flat out when talking about it the reasons he got into drugs in the first place was an emptiness inside of himself. My condolences go out to his daughter who's just 11 and ex-wife as well as the crew at Zero Point Zero that's supported and worked with him for years.