Anthony Bourdain dead at 61

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Wait. Gene Wilder died?!?

Rest In Peace, Mr.
 
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Well we need to remember its mental illness. People don’t kill themselves because they are weak or bad but sick.

I always did question why Bourdain drank. He dealt with an addiction to heroin years ago. Recovering addicts normally shouldn’t drink alcohol.
 
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Well we need to remember its mental illness. People don’t kill themselves because they are weak or bad but sick.

I always did question why Bourdain drank. He dealt with an addiction to heroin years ago. Recovering addicts normally shouldn’t drink alcohol.
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It’s often related to untreatable physical illness, not mental illness
 
That someone would kill themselves is mental illness- often depression partially related to a physical problem.

Suicide is inexorably linked to mental illness.
 
You have an extremely lose definition of mental illness
so big you can just throw anything under it, right?
 
I am a licensed clinical social worker. I have an ok conception of what is and isn’t mental illness
 
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I am a licensed clinical social worker. I have an ok conception of what is and isn’t mental illness
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It sure sounds to me like you’ve said anyone who commits suicide is mentally ill.
While I would say they aren’t mentally healthy, I hesitate to label them all as mentally ill.
I bow to your expertise though, if you work with the experts.

It seems a cop out diagnosis to me.
 
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I’ll do a little research and see what I can dig up about the connection of suicide to mental illness and how it relates to a diagnoses of depression
 
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Well we need to remember its mental illness. People don’t kill themselves because they are weak or bad but sick.
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Do we have evidence he was suffering from mental illness? Supposedly he was an atheist. Maybe he got tired of things.
 
Taking one’s own life is counter intuitive to our human nature. I cannot even fathom the dark and painful state someone would be in to want to die.It’s heartbreaking.
 
Don’t look at it. Trust me.

It’s supposedly Bourdain standing with a fetus in a jar. It’s absolutely hideous.
 
I enjoyed his traveling shows and I agree that he seemed to have a “downer” persona. Sorry, may he rest in peace.
 
Tells you how much CNN I watch. Did not even know who he was. Wife is flabbergasted at my knowledge of this guy.
 
You mean your lack thereof.I never watched him either but knew who he was
 
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