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Actually, he made $555,000 and started 3 games when Pennington was hurt. Still not a bad deal...bucknola said:Dude made over $1 million and never played a down and probably never practiced either. Where do I sign up?
He can't help it he's bipolar but the drug violations are of his own doing. He may now have an addiction problem, but if so it's a result of his behavior - he chose to do drugs.BuckStocksHere said:Glad the Cowboys cut his no good butt when they did.
Obviously you've never had a friend or loved one be diagnosed with bipolar disorder... otherwise you'd find his actions very normal since he was never treated for it. Drug Abuse is normal for untreated bipolar patients on the manic end.BuckStocksHere said:Glad the Cowboys cut his no good butt when they did.
Nope on the bi-polar.LloydSev said:Obviously you've never had a friend or loved one be diagnosed with bipolar disorder... otherwise you'd find his actions very normal since he was never treated for it. Drug Abuse is normal for untreated bipolar patients on the manic end.
People with bi-polar disorder don't "choose" to do drugs. Two-thirds of those with bi-polar disorder (manic depression) have problems with addiction, so it can be said that addiction is sympomatic of the disease.He can't help it he's bipolar but the drug violations are of his own doing. He may now have an addiction problem, but if so it's a result of his behavior - he chose to do drugs.
Very good. At least someone else understands what I was trying to say (even if you knew it before I said it.. lol)...LordJeffBuck said:People with bi-polar disorder don't "choose" to do drugs. Two-thirds of those with bi-polar disorder (manic depression) have problems with addiction, so it can be said that addiction is sympomatic of the disease.
I disagree.... however you want to slice it ... it is still a choice.LordJeffBuck said:People with bi-polar disorder don't "choose" to do drugs. Two-thirds of those with bi-polar disorder (manic depression) have problems with addiction, so it can be said that addiction is sympomatic of the disease.
See Alonzo Spellman. I still can see him running around his street like a caged animal on the t.v. news. It was O.J. like in the coverage in ChicagoLloydSev said:Bi-Polar disorder is a very serious mental illness and left untreated can result in very self destructive behavior.
You can disagree, but you'd be wrong. Telling a bi-polar patient to stop erratic, impulsive, irrational activity (like drug abuse, spending sprees, hypersexuality, etc.) is like telling a cancer patient to stop growing tumors. Some people (quite a few, actually) refuse to understand that mental illness is a disease, not simply a series of bad choices. When the chemicals in the brain are imbalanced, mental illness results - it is a physiological problem that cannot be overcome by "willpower" or "choice" or "faith in god" or whatever, but rather must be treated medically. Only when the underlying condition (bi-polar disorder) has been successfully treated, can the conditioned activity (drug abuse) then be addressed.I disagree.... however you want to slice it ... it is still a choice.
Anyone who does drugs...choose such. They don't miraculously enter your body. Whether sick or not - this still applies and they get no love from me. How did they get those drugs? Were they hanging out with unscrupulous people? You just don't wake up one day and say ...geez.... look at this bag o' weed on my table.... I'll smoke it. uh uh.
I understand (well I don't really as I dont' have it) bi-polar is a "disease" or whatever.... and I feel sorry for anybody with a "disease".... but drug abuse is a choice, plain and simple.
LordJeffBuck,LordJeffBuck said:You can disagree, but you'd be wrong. Telling a bi-polar patient to stop erratic, impulsive, irrational activity (like drug abuse, spending sprees, hypersexuality, etc.) is like telling a cancer patient to stop growing tumors. Some people (quite a few, actually) refuse to understand that mental illness is a disease, not simply a series of bad choices. When the chemicals in the brain are imbalanced, mental illness results - it is a physiological problem that cannot be overcome by "willpower" or "choice" or "faith in god" or whatever, but rather must be treated medically. Only when the underlying condition (bi-polar disorder) has been successfully treated, can the conditioned activity (drug abuse) then be addressed.
For anyone who is interested in bi-polar disorder, please read the text "Manic Depressive Illness" by Drs. Goodwin & Jamison, two of the leading experts on mood disorders.