According to a Dallas police report first obtained by News 8, Dallas Cowboys star receiver Terrell Owens attempted suicide Tuesday night.
The report says Owens, 32, took prescription pain pills. Owens broke his right hand in a Sept. 17 game against the Washington Redskins.
Dont really have much of a comment right now, but I think this is a huge story. This goes against much of what we believe as a society. TO was famous and rich, could buy anything. What happened?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Police report: Terrell Owens attempted suicide
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TO has mental problems. Thanks to lawsuits by the ACLU and threatened lawsuits by the ACLU we can no longer force the mentally ill to get help be they rich or poor. Unless a person can be shown to be a danger to the community, the authorities cannot lock them up. Suicidal people are not considered dangers to the community unless they threaten others with weapons, at which time they become "Suicide by Cop" cases.
Scorpion says---
T.O.is getting old.He sees that he can't do it anymore at the high
performance level that he has attained.Now that society has made athletes entertainers with salaries
to match,mentally,some such as Owens,can't handle the impending loss of the lifestyle,income,and adulation that is in the near future.Rather than fall from the top he'll stop it before it happens.Imagine if it was like pro
sports was when I was growing up.
A ball player would just go back to
his regular job-his off-season job for his real income,and not worry
as much about losing those athletic
skills that led to this part-time job.
What happened?
Three words:
Drugs, alcohol, & steroids.
Game, it is proof that fame and fortune is not all it is cracked up to be. Happiness comes from the inside not the outside. I would like to address pcd and the way he has turned something totally non political into a political issue but I think i will just ignore his comments from now on. Speaking of what is on the inside. He is truly not able to see anything outside the frame of his own rage.
Ron, you mean you can't see anything out of your BDS and you can't admit you turn everything political. Maybe you ought to see a shrink for your projection problems.
pcd..what I mean is you are a rageaholic. Being an alcoholic I am familiar with the "holics". Look at the stuff you have posted on this blog in the past couple of days and take an honest look at yourself.
From a clinician, not me:
Rageaholics feel that expressing anger is self-stimulating.
Rageaholics are frequently thinking about resentment and they have fantasies of revenge.
Have you ever been so angry that you felt like you could breathe fire? Anger is one of our most primitive emotions. Feeling angry creates an adrenaline rush in our bodies and our brains. This feeling overcomes you and you feel like superman taking over the world. The rage keeps the adrenaline pumping and for most this is a great feeling and we want to keep feeling it so we stay on a semi-constant state of rage. We stay on the verge of outrage. It's almost like being drunk. You become a rageaholic.
Rageaholics react to strong emotions, such as feelings of fear, sadness, shame, inadequacy, guilt or loss with rage. Raging gives the rageaholic a feeling of power. Rage sets up a neurochemical reaction in the brain that can be addictive, producing what is know as rageaholism or rageaholics.
A rageaholic is someone who feeds on expressing rage. Like the alcoholic, the rage-aholic is addicted to blowing up. This is usually caused by the rageaholic stuffing back real feelings and emotions until it builds up the point that the rage-aholic snaps and goes crazy. Stress of any kind can be a trigger. It is a cry for love, but a fear to accept it.
All addictions have symptoms, which allow us to recognize these problems as addictive diseases. The signs of addictive diseases are self-stimulation, compulsion, obsession, denial, withdrawal and craving syndrome and unpredictable behavior.
Rageaholics feel that expressing anger is self-stimulating. It triggers the compulsion for more anger. Rageaholics can be compared to Alcoholics. The more an alcoholic drinks the more they want to drink. It's the same with a Rageaholic. The more they rage, the more they want to rage.
Compulsion or loss of control is the inability to stop expressing anger once we have begun. The inability to control angry words is a certain sign of rageaholism. The loss of control is an addiction. Anger addiction or "rageaholism" is the compulsive pursuit of a mood change by repeatedly engaging in episodes of rage despite adverse consequences. Rageaholics will continue to range compulsively without regard to the negative consequences.
Ron is correct.
Which is why it's a very good idea not to give such a person any attention at all, and the best thing to do is just ignore them.
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