Michael Jackson
I know I haven’t done anything but talk about MJ since last Thursday. But the truth is, there is so much for people who suffer from depression and anxiety to learn from this. And, it’s extremely sad to think that it took the loss of such a man. But, there was so much we just didn’t know about.
For one, he never had a childhood. He was obviously at one point or another or maybe for many years addicted to drugs. The thing about that goes back to my post the other day about this.
Have you ever had surgery? Did you get a prescription for pain medication when it was over? Well, if the numbers are accurate, he had 13 plastic surgeries including the one to help repair his scalp that had second degree burns after filming a Pepsi Commercial.
So, with that, if you had been subjected to multiple personalities, the chances are, he was given pain medication. And, in addition to that, as many as he had, the pain medications probably didn’t end before another procedure was performed and thus another cycle of prescription pain killers.
And, 10, 11, 14 surgeries later and time spent on the pain medication can only lead to one place – addiction. Ask me, I know.
Now add in the anxiety of the way people were treating you over your appearance, the joke surrounding he and Lisa Marie and their marriage and then, above all, his run in with the law. Money spent, much money spent on child molestation trials and if you watch him as he is walking from the car to the court room, he was more than just a little bit frail.
So, let’s let the man have his memorial. Let his family grieve and pray for his children and the people surrounding him who have lost a brother, father, son, uncle.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Someone asked me why women don’t gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don’t have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women’s total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.