Members ggm1960 Posted April 29, 2007 Members Share Posted April 29, 2007 http://www.guitarworld.com/article/brad_delp_details_emerge_about_his_tragic_suicide This may be old news by now but I just saw this article. It's really hard for me to understand why someone who's achieved such great accomplishments would want to go out like that. I suppose great highs are accompanied by great lows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted April 29, 2007 Members Share Posted April 29, 2007 Accomplishments don't usually have much to do with it, for manic depressives -- or whatever you want to call moody artists (and non-artists, of course). Those with mood disorders tend to have multiple inner chemical cycles that spin out of balance and occasionally those cycles just all line up in such a way to make the compulsion to "end it all" seem like a soothing siren song. So many creative people are subject to mood disorders that we've come to think of it almost as part of the creative profile. Everytime I listen to a slug of Elliot Smith I find myself thinking... well, at least he recorded like a mother------ before he plunged that knife into his heart... At least Delp tried to be responsible and prevent people from being harmed physically or coming on the body unexpectedly. As a moody guy, I give him 10 points for trying to go out relatively gracefully instead of leaving a big, psychodrama mess for loved ones to find... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted April 29, 2007 Members Share Posted April 29, 2007 I agree it's difficult to comprehend why someone with so much would do something like this. My kid's pediatrician's wife recently did the same thing. I saw her picture in the paper, she was a beautiful woman close to my age, sounds like she had meaningful work, two children, and a doctor for a husband who has always seemed to me like a super nice guy. I have to ask, what more could anyone want???? And yet, this poor girl has tried several times to do this and finally succeeded. I can't imagine what the family is going through. I've suffered with depression over my life, at times so debilitating that I could do very little outside of staying in my bed, but I have never been to a point where the idea of ending my life has had any appeal to it. It's a difficult thing to understand. But I guess for some people it's very real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted April 29, 2007 Members Share Posted April 29, 2007 Pain. It doesn't have to come from outside to be real... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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