Really? The way it was originally worded and the circumstances immediately made me suspect this, before I even knew he had depression.
RIP.
He was depressed and drank a lot. I thought this was going to be the reason. Still sucks though, obviously.
Ah fuck I didn't even know he died.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcrbM1l_BoI
Still one of my favorite songs when I find myself down. This and levels are the only two that can bring me up from slumps. Too bad it couldn't help himself.
I had guessed an accidental overdose or something of that nature.
FUCK depression
Avicii
Chris Cornell
Chester Bennington
I fucking hate this stupid mental disease. I want to fund every research against it
Too bad there are so many idiots who just think its "I'm Sad"
It was severe anxiety issues that eventually developed into depression afaik. It really pisses me off when people go "just cheer up lol", people who say shit like that don't know what it's like to be quite literally tortured by your own mind 24/7, and I'm pretty sure that if you could somehow let them endure even just a couple of hours of that they'd change their tone pretty quickly. He was young, handsome, and successful, essentially the blueprint of happiness in many/most people's eyes, and yet this absolute fucking cancer of a disease was able to make him do what he did just to escape the pain. More reasearch needs to go into why this shit develops and how you cure it
The nasty thing about it is that it's both a disease and a symptom.
Could it just be a hormonal imbalance? Lifestyle factors? Neural issues? Can you find and treat what's causing it? Can you tackle the disease itself? Getting it wrong will only make it worse for the afflicted, YOU are
cured, YOU should be better or YOU are just sad and YOU need to get on with it.
And what's worse is it's easily mistaken for just part of being human, those suffering might not even be aware its something they can or need to do something about. They might feel like they need to get over it and
the fact that they can't makes them feel even worse and inadequate.
I'm hesitant to call a collective term for diseases and symptoms "insidious" but that's what it feels like sometimes.
And a lot of attention seekers who are actually just sad and tell people they're depressed, trivializing the people who actually have it.
Mainly stems down to people not knowing what depression is, every kid I've met online acts like they're depressed but you'll never know what true depression is unless you experience it.
It's also scary to think about emotions as just another part of your body, people find comfort in the idea of separating body and soul - that you are more than just a body.
So I can easily see that many people don't really think it's a problem with their body and it's something wrong with them, which only breeds the depression further.
"Luckily" I had a chance to experience it first-hand in a somewhat controlled manner. Became pretty depressed and suicidal for a couple of months following food poisoning.
The only thing that helped was taking vitamin pills over the course of these months and it wasn't a fast process at all, and there was nothing mentally wrong with me at the time.
It was purely chemical.
That being said it's obviously not going to be the case for everyone suffering from depression, but how many people are going to think that it might just be their brain that's in a chemical imbalance that should be fixed?
And that's what makes it so insidious, it's causes are many but the end result is sadness.
"People get sad all the time, just suck it up and get on with it!"
When the reality is the sufferer is sad for reasons besides something has upset them and nobody would even know about it.
it is absolutely insidious
once upon a time I was on the brink of suicide. I am to this day hesitant to call that period of my life "depression" because I haven't been diagnosed, because now I am happy with my life, because I haven't had those thoughts in years
but still, what exactly it was, I am unsure. That's how insidious this shit is
But does that make words like “depressing” wrong?
People use depression to describe emotion as well, because you can be more than sad without being clinically depressed.
UPDATE
He slashed himself with broken bottle.
Avicii died by suicide, according to graphic TMZ report
Avicii committed suicide with broken glass he used to cut himself ... TMZ has learned.
Multiple sources familiar with the circumstances surrounding the famous DJ's death tell us, he did indeed take his own life ... something his parents alluded to last week.
Our sources say the method of death was a shard of glass that caused massive bleeding. Two sources tell us Avicii broke a bottle and used the glass to inflict the fatal wound. One of the sources says it was a wine bottle.
Two sources tell us the point of injury was Avicii's neck but another strongly denies that, saying it was his wrist. We cannot confirm this, but the sources were privy to specific information about Avicii's death.
As TMZ reported ... the 28-year-old was found dead April 20 in the Middle Eastern country of Oman. He battled alcohol problems for years, and his friends worried those issues would eventually kill him.
Avicii's family released a statement that included the clear message it was suicide ... "He really struggled with thoughts about Meaning, Life, Happiness. He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace."
Fucking hell.
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