{"id":10416,"date":"2017-08-06T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T23:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:00","slug":"rock-star-suicides-lets-stop-talking-about-demons-and-start-talking-about-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/rock-star-suicides-lets-stop-talking-about-demons-and-start-talking-about-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Star Suicides: Let\u2019s Stop Talking About \u201cDemons\u201d and Start Talking About Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Huffington Post….<\/em><\/p>\n

My latest article in the Huffington Post talks about Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. Here is the opening:<\/p>\n

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As a society, we can recognize the symptoms of artists who are depressed and get them into treatment instead of raising up their tortured art and then wondering why they die.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rock star suicides are nothing new. I\u2019m reminded of Ian Curtis, Micheal Hutchence, and Curt Cobain. I recently wrote an article<\/a> about the death of Chris Cornell, and sadly, I now write about the death of Chester Bennington of Linkin Park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once again, the world has lost a vibrant, young, and seemingly \u201chave it all\u201d kind of man. I want to first share my sadness at the loss of yet another person who simply didn\u2019t need to die, but this time my heart is not breaking. This time I\u2019m getting mad. The frustration is rising and I feel a call to action is in order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chester Bennington\u2019s \u201cDemons\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Chester\u2019s bandmates said they understood his \u201cdemons\u201d were always a part of him and something that made the group more \u201chuman.\u201d I know they are trying to make sense of losing a vibrant, intelligent, talented and very, very successful man. Unfortunately, this way of talking is a major part of the problem. The way we talk about someone who dies from suicide perpetuates the myth that it\u2019s something specific to their identity that killed the person\u2014instead of a well-documented result of an illness called depression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When a rock star dies from suicide, we are shocked. And the typical, loving but ignorant words come out full force. He battled his demons, and they were eventually too strong for him<\/em> is something I\u2019ve read more times that I can count.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These demons sure are busy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Click here to read<\/p>\n

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by Julie A. Fast, coauthor of Loving Someone With Bipolar<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As a society, we can recognize the symptoms of artists who are depressed and get them into treatment instead of raising up their tortured art and then wondering why they die.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Rock star suicides are nothing new. I\u2019m reminded of Ian Curtis, Micheal Hutchence, and Curt Cobain. I recently wrote an article<\/a> about the death of Chris Cornell, and sadly, I now write about the death of Chester Bennington of Linkin Park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once again, the world has lost a vibrant, young, and seemingly \u201chave it all\u201d kind of man. I want to first share my sadness at the loss of yet another person who simply didn\u2019t need to die, but this time my heart is not breaking. This time I\u2019m getting mad. The frustration is rising and I feel a call to action is in order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chester Bennington\u2019s \u201cDemons\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
\n

Chester\u2019s bandmates said they understood his \u201cdemons\u201d were always a part of him and something that made the group more \u201chuman.\u201d I know they are trying to make sense of losing a vibrant, intelligent, talented and very, very successful man. Unfortunately, this way of talking is a major part of the problem. The way we talk about someone who dies from suicide perpetuates the myth that it\u2019s something specific to their identity that killed the person\u2014instead of a well-documented result of an illness called depression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

When a rock star dies from suicide, we are shocked. And the typical, loving but ignorant words come out full force. He battled his demons, and they were eventually too strong for him<\/em> is something I\u2019ve read more times that I can count.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

These demons sure are busy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0Click here to read\u00a0Rock Star Suicides: Let\u2019s Stop Talking About \u201cDemons\u201d and Start Talking About Illness.<\/a><\/p>\n

Julie<\/em><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Huffington Post….<\/p>\n

My latest article in the Huffington Post talks about Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. Here is the opening:<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

As a society, we can recognize the symptoms of artists who are depressed and get them into treatment instead of raising up their tortured art and then wondering why they die.<\/p>\n

Rock star suicides are nothing new. I\u2019m reminded of Ian Curtis, Micheal Hutchence, and Curt Cobain. I recently wrote an article<\/a> about the death of Chris Cornell, and sadly, I now write about the death of Chester Bennington of Linkin Park.<\/p>\n

Once again, the world has lost a vibrant, young, and seemingly \u201chave it all\u201d kind of man. I want to first share my sadness at the loss of yet another person who simply didn\u2019t need to die, but this time my heart is not breaking. This time I\u2019m getting mad. The frustration [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}