(03-30-2021, 05:44 PM)The Drifter Wrote: January 22nd, 1984, Superbowl Sunday........ Redskins vs Raiders....... Had a bet with  good friend of mine on that game, I picked the Raiders to win........ I never had the chance to collect...... Got a call later that evening from my Aunt, said my brother was on the was in....... It seems a 19yo friend who I had the bet with blew his own head off with a 20 guage shotgun...... I had the misfortune of telling another close friend about it...... I still relive that day at times when I'm under stress...... TO this day we do not have the answer to why he did it...... Guess I'll have to ask him when I catch up to him in hell

Maybe he didn't either. Depression is a real sickness. A chemical imbalance inside the brain. People cannot help being depressed and sometimes they don't even realize what they are doing. The sadness takes over and that's all they feel. Nothing else matters. They feel nothing other than the seemingly endless void of unhappiness that they are surrounded by. Some get help through therapy, but in the more serious cases, medication can help balance people out. If it goes untreated though, suicide is often the outcome. To withdrawn people or people who don't want to admit they suffer from this, because of the negative stigma attached to the disease, this can seem like the only way out.

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