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Bipolar is nothing to mess around with , plain and simple. It's easy to blame the medication , but without it.....how long before he imploded? Some people need those kind of med's , just to be some what normal compared to other people. And the people who don't find help in some way , usually don't have a good life , or any life at all.
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No need to make this an argument...
A talented athlete succumb to his demons and his addiction. Why can't we just learn from that instead of feeling threatened by someone's comment?
On tv we are inundated with the idea that doctors and drugs can fix anything. But they can't.
Your brain is BROKEN. You can’t see it, that’s why so many are ignorant of mental disorders. It’s incredibly difficult to manage and to get the right cocktail of meds. It’s never perfect and not nearly as simple to treat as depression. Many go undiagnosed and misdiagnosed and you don’t just get better and snap out of it. Not being medicated is playing with fire.
Some think “just snap out of it, go do 100 push-ups and lead a healthy lifestyle - drugs/medication are bad.” I wish it was that simple. Would you tell a diabetic to stop taking insulin and just walk it off? Even being medicated is far from perfect. The good news is Dr.’s are gaining a better understanding of the disorder and as new meds are coming out more options available. Sadly, there’s no magic bullet, but it can be managed.
For what it worth, I think you're spot on with your comments (except for the fact that you totally missed my point).
This guy had a mental disorder (demons) and the cocktail of drugs (which seems to be the pharma industry's solution to everything) resulted in a talented athlete getting addicted to medicine that, by virtue of it being prescribed by a doctor, was thought to be safe. (We all know better now...or at least I hope we do.)
This is a hidden disease that people can't see and therefore it doesn't register as a medical condition (like a broken leg or cancer).
My point was this, a talented athlete is no longer with us because the drugs he was prescribed to manage his disease, contributed to his battle with addiction (another hidden disease).
It sounds like he was prescribed Oxy for unrelated injuries and that became the drug he abused (and others, they found Coke, Meth, and Xanax in his system). Strangely enough that wasn’t the cause of death. He had a main artery blockage leading to cardiac arrest.
The pyschoactive drugs to treat Bipolar are NOT something a person abuses, there’s no ”high” and the side effects truly suck, and definitely not addictive. No mention of any Bipolar drugs in his system or anti-depressants which can explain his self medicating with illicit drugs.
Tons of articles since the press release for the movie, google his name + Bipolar. His death was in 2010, which is a lifetime ago. New meds every year.
Pit Row
Look into Kratom for pain and weening off opioids. Something I’ve heard about. It’s a plant. CBD another one obviously. NFL players trying to get the social/political stigma off MJ...those guys live with constant pain just like Moto dudes.
RIP ANDY
I truly feel bad for Andy , or anyone that has ever had to deal with a bipolar disorder. But like other's have said , it's manageable once they ( the doctor's ) figure out what you need. I'm sure the medication can be abused , just like anything , but what that video states ( as in it was the medication's fault ).....is incorrect. When you take those type of medication's , the worst thing you can do , is to do other substances with them. These drugs are for balancing out certain chemical's and so forth in your brain. And when you mix them with other stuff......bad stuff can happen.
mingham, you have built up a resistance to using drugs and that's good. make1go is just pointing out that some have had injuries and prescriptions and experiences that were unplanned, unwanted, and undesirable.
The movie will hopefully raise awareness of bipolar, meds, and pressures of pro sports.
Andy had pressures that most of us (except possibly Kenny), can relate to. Unfortunately it got the best of him, and everyone around him. There are actually other extreme sports athletes who had some trouble, many actually.
Hopefully this movie will help others.
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