He also suffered with anxiety and depression. First thoughts are unfortunately suicide or OD but you just never know. Regardless, incredibly sad and way too young.
Tragic. Makes one wonder if people fighting mental health issues should be playing high pressure, high profile sports.
He's just an idiot. There's no shame. Just an agenda
What is laughable…..and ridiculous …is to automatically blame every death of the virus or the vaccines. Aren’t we supposed to follow science?
I agree that Joe is a good guy. He is correct on most issues. But this vaccine stuff is over the the top. It’s using death for political gain…. much like the left did with the Wuhan, George Floyd, Trevor Martin and more.
It’s a chicken or the egg scenario. Suicide the result of his addictions or addictions the result of his mental illness. More likely the later. Probably trying to self medicate and the downward spiral begins.
Good thought. There are tons of addictions: booze, drugs, food, gambling, porn, etc. Cause or Effect? Each is different, I would assume. I listened to Alice Cooper interview where he stated one day he woke up and didn't like who he was. The drugs and women were taking a toll. If you know his story, you know that he had reinvented himself many times to ultimately fall on being the stage act "Allice Cooper". He struggled to kick his booze/drug/groupie addition. So he learned to do it by taking on a different addiction. He started to golf every single day. So he schedules golf every day, rain or shine, home or on the road, every day early in the morning.
Not sure golf caused his depression, especially since he recently won. Could it be relationship issues?
Did find it interesting that in his parents statement about all the people who loved him, his fiance was conspicuously not mentioned.
Never said golf caused his depression. But fighting depression or any mental health issue is extremely difficult in the best situations.
Totally agree. Depression is often a condition that has nothing to do with the person's environment. In other words, the life of a successful touring pro would seem to be ideal. But depression combined with that kind of unstructured life would seem to be a challenge. Access to his demons with no anchor (wife, family, children, close friends) makes staying straight even more difficult.
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Who knows?
Depression isn't rational. Looking from the outside, it's hard to imagine that someone in his position would see himself as a failure. Through the eyes of depression, it would be hard to see it as anything other than complete failure. It's no more rational than a person with anorexia looking at themselves in the mirror and seeing a person who needs to lose weight when they actually are seriously malnourished. If a person in that condition could see things clearly and accurately, they wouldn't have a problem. As odd as it may seem, someone suffering from depression may experience their greatest sense of failure in the midst of great success. Any advice other than seeking medical help would be no less worthless if it was given in a language he didn't understand.
