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[AJE]

The recent headline shootings up in Crandon and Virginia Tech was probably a result to depression. They just snapped.

We seek to cope by any means possible, drugs, illusive behavior, violence, isolation whatever it takes...what we don't take a moment to realize is that we also bring down those around us and the longer we wait the ramifications will be unfortunately harder to deal with. Do seek help! The first step is always the hardest, but trust me it will get better.


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Here in Oshkosh not to long ago a young handsome 20 year old from a wealthy family took his life as a result of depression. Here is the sad story of Alex.

Alex never had a worry about his life, his family had money, and he had a million friends, a stable job. When I mitt the man at my work place he was always so vivacious with such positive energy to radiate to everyone. Not once did I realize that he was in such turmoil. If only I knew I would have been up front and honest with the man about my own battle with Depression. But Alex masked his conscious very well.

In the days preceding his suicide, he was beat up by some very jealous individuals. Why because the ex-girlfriend of one of the envious men was interested in Alex. A hospital visit was the result of this act. Alex desperately sought help from his closest friends but they were too busy with their own lives to respond immediately, or that is until it was too late.

The young man chugged down a 12 pack, before he floored the gas on a backcountry road here in Winnebago County. Nobody knows the speed he was going but he literally wrapped the sedan around a tree. He was a John Doe until the dental records gave his identity.

This scenario of suicide as a result of depression is quite common, almost 25 years ago I too recall a similar account of a Valders High Teen taking his life down a backcountry road in Manitowoc County. The tree is still there today baring the awful scars of the accident but at least it lived to tell the story.