When depression and suicide become the lead story

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3. "My guess would be that there's some faulty brain chemistry involved.

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Williams did have situational reasons to be depressed, it turns out, but those things alone wouldn't cause a rational person to commit suicide."

These two concur with your diagnosis:

"Ironically, most people can successfully recover from addictions and depression, though that wasn't the result in Mr. Williams' case...(He) suffered, if press accounts are correct, from clinical, severe depression. That's a chemical imbalance. Not enough money is spent on researching or treating that," (said) Bob Davison, a Codey Fund (for Mental Health) board member and the executive director of the Mental Health Association of Essex County (New Jersey)...

Moustafa Shafey, a psychiatrist and medical director of CentraState Medical Center's Mental Health Department...said the death of Williams underscores the connection between depression and addiction. (He) said depression and addiction are both "diseases of the brain that endanger nerve cells, disrupt brain functioning, and damage the heart and blood vessels and other vital organs, but they also alter personal perspective and judgment."

So it's a question of what effects the brain's internal chemical imbalances and the substance abuse have on each other. Are you studying psychology, by any chance?


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