ajthomas wrote:
getcereal wrote:
Brian in MA wrote:
Only 52, died unexpectedly after a show in Detroit last night. Such a great vocalist. https://www.bostonglobe.com/...eCwvlQj7GxK/amp.html
Maybe it is time to open a national dialog on drugs and depression. So sad that a successful talented man with a beautiful wife and kids would get to the point where suicide is the preferred option.
Well we can start with this: most suicide is caused by a lack of impulse control. Drugs exacerbate it. Depression in its worst state causes inaction (catatonia) not suicide. People blame it on depression because it is nicer than saying it was caused by selfishness, thoughtlessness and immaturity. Most of the people who will read this have contemplated suicide at one time or another. Cornell actually doing it doesn't mean that he had a level of depression that you or I never had.
The narrative that his soul was in such pain that he could no longer envision a life worth living is wrong.
I don't know why so many people kill themselves. I have never been close to there. What I have heard is drugs fry your 'happy maker' parts of your brain to the point were life eventually sucks.
I have read interview like this where Chris has talked about dealing with depression:
Dealing with depression
As far as depression, Cornell had said that he had a tendency to “be pretty closed off” and reclusive.
“It’s about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I’ve always had a problem with,” he told Rolling Stone. “It’s about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.”
He once described the period before rehab as a time in which he was dealing with the “daily drudgery of depression and either trying to not drink or do drugs or doing them.” In the 2015 interview with Rolling Stone Australia, he said that when he was drinking too much, it “has its own problems, particularly with depression.”
Talking about how his own music had melancholy vibes around the release of 1999’s Euphoria Morning, he told Guitar.com, “I’ve always liked depressing music because a lot of times listening to it when you’re down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.”
Asked if he perceived run-of-the-mill depression as a comfort zone, he replied, “The problem is, no one really knows what run-of-the-mill depression is. You’ll think somebody has run-of-the-mill depression, and then the next thing you know, they’re hanging from a rope. It’s hard to tell the difference. But I do feel that depression can be useful. Sometimes it’s just chemical. It doesn’t seem to come from anywhere. And whenever I’ve been in any kind of depression, I’ve over the years tried to not only imagine what it feels like to not be there, but try to remind myself that I could just wake up the next day and it could be gone because that happens, and not to worry about it. And at the same time, when I’m feeling great, I remember the depression and think about the differences in what I’m feeling and why I would feel that way, and not be reactionary one way or the other. You just have to realize that these are patterns of life and you just go through them.”
https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/chris-cornell-said-depression-addiction-185856132.html
