> > > On 09/29/2016 04:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Well, considering that he was taking it hard, > > How do you know?
When I first heard he died, I read a few articles that were kicking around about it, and his family and friends had mentioned it, along with his financial troubles. Or, at least I seem to remember it that way, at any rate. > > Some of his escapades are the stuff lost weekends gone lost years are > made of. > > Have you ever heard of a psychological Fugue? Yeah, it could be.. but it doesn't take something as extreme, or rare, as a disassociative state to explain this, I don't think. Hard drinking and clinical depression alone is really enough, by itself. If you're trying to numb depression over losing a loved one while having your finances get all fucked is enough to drive a lot people over the edge in one way or another, especially if you're the type of person that bases their self-worth on such things. Which, in our society, unfortunately, is most people. The again, a sudden shattering of self-worth can be the type of thing to cause a disassociative state, so .. who knows.
