Rick Rypien found dead

You gotta wonder with some of the guys that end up being fighters, if they have issues of their own that lead to them being extra violent on the ice. Look at guys like Tootoo and Cooke…you can't tell me that these guys aren't already a little inherently violent.

tim1_2 wrote:You gotta wonder with some of the guys that end up being fighters, if they have issues of their own that lead to them being extra violent on the ice. Look at guys like Tootoo and Cooke…you can't tell me that these guys aren't already a little inherently violent.

A lot of guys are just violet. Ben Eager is a very nice example of that.

NEELY wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:You gotta wonder with some of the guys that end up being fighters, if they have issues of their own that lead to them being extra violent on the ice. Look at guys like Tootoo and Cooke…you can't tell me that these guys aren't already a little inherently violent.

A lot of guys are just violet. Ben Eager is a very nice example of that.

I thought of him as more of a mauve.

NEELY wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:Assuming this is a suicide, it just goes to show how money doesn't buy happiness. A lot of people would give anything to trade places with a professional athlete…and then when you see something like this, it just makes it even more tragic.

Or he has been beat in the head so many times he had brain damage.

What about Tom Cavanagh (Sharks prospect)? Looks like he only had 2 AHL fights in his career. Found dead in a mall parking lot back in January. Died of "multiple traumatic injuries due to blunt force impact" which was ruled a suicide (don't even want to think how that's possible). Anyhow, point is he suffered from mental illness -- same as Rypien -- but not likely brain damaged.

I could be wrong, but the kind of pressure that having to fight the other team's best fighter on a nightly basis could certainly affect your mental state. Stress and anxiety, not being able to sleep -- all of that can lead to medication, then overmedication and dependence. Probably doesn't help the situation if they are already suffering from depression or other disorders.

Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain. A concussion by definition is indeed brain damage. I'm not going to speculate on why someone woudl kill themselves but there is absolutely a relation between head injuries and hockey players, football players, dying young/suicide.

No one has any idea for the most part of the brain will react to a trama to the head. Yah, there has been more research done to study the effects of head injuries but there is no study to determine what might be knocked loose from a head injury. It could be some family gene issue that hasn't effected someones life until a blow to the head. Personally, I never once had a migrain until I was knocked out, now I get them all the time as my mother and her family get them all the time.

Point being is I would be willing to bet that the shots athlete's take to the head are absolutely part of the cause of suicides in cases like this. Chris Benoit is another pretty good example of a guy who's brain was basically mush because of multiple shots to the brain.

A lot of people have depression that have never played sports. It is an illness.

It's time to bring 'mental illness' out of the shadows.

The Richardson's tried to do that last year with Daron's suicide. Alfie with his sister's mental illness and being a spokesman for "you know who I am".

People can get help. It is there for them but they have to use it.

How can it be so bad for someone to commit suicide... knowing it will be their family that finds them. It's really tragic...

NEELY wrote:Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain.

No.

spader wrote:

NEELY wrote:Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain.

No.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118115428.htm

Good call.

sandysensfan wrote:A lot of people have depression that have never played sports. It is an illness.

It's time to bring 'mental illness' out of the shadows.

The Richardson's tried to do that last year with Daron's suicide. Alfie with his sister's mental illness and being a spokesman for "you know who I am".

People can get help. It is there for them but they have to use it.

How can it be so bad for someone to commit suicide... knowing it will be their family that finds them. It's really tragic...

Depression is an illness, I agree but it is absolutely brought on by blows to the head or brain damage. People are acting like there is some simple explination to a varity of different problems or specific instances like the one with Rypin.

It's not as simple as saying "the help is there". Do people not understand that a concussion (in this circumstance) could have very well led to depression that was brought on my damage to the brain... if that's the case the help might not be "there for them" because they are not thinking right, maybe not thinking at all.

NEELY wrote:

spader wrote:

NEELY wrote:Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain.

No.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118115428.htm

Good call.

But it's not the only causation. Depression and other mental illnesses are the result of neurotransmitters not functioning properly, whether it be too much neurotransmitters collecting in synapses, or over activity in synapses. More or less right. That is why pharmaceutical in conjunction with therapeutic treatment is the only effective treatment.

Yes, there's a lot of correlation between brain trauma and these spots on the brain that resemble Alzheimers/Dementia, but studies have a long way to go.

Dash wrote:

NEELY wrote:

spader wrote:

NEELY wrote:Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain.

No.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118115428.htm

Good call.

But it's not the only causation. Depression and other mental illnesses are the result of neurotransmitters not functioning properly, whether it be too much neurotransmitters collecting in synapses, or over activity in synapses. More or less right. That is why pharmaceutical in conjunction with therapeutic treatment is the only effective treatment.

Yes, there's a lot of correlation between brain trauma and these spots on the brain that resemble Alzheimers/Dementia, but studies have a long way to go.

Absolutely. The point I am trying to make, long and short. you get hit in the head enough, you become Cussed up and unless there is some way of being able to repair brain cells or w/e else is damaged up there, things like this will continue to happen.

NEELY wrote:

sandysensfan wrote:A lot of people have depression that have never played sports. It is an illness.

It's time to bring 'mental illness' out of the shadows.

The Richardson's tried to do that last year with Daron's suicide. Alfie with his sister's mental illness and being a spokesman for "you know who I am".

People can get help. It is there for them but they have to use it.

How can it be so bad for someone to commit suicide... knowing it will be their family that finds them. It's really tragic...

Depression is an illness, I agree but it is absolutely brought on by blows to the head or brain damage. People are acting like there is some simple explination to a varity of different problems or specific instances like the one with Rypin.

It's not as simple as saying "the help is there". Do people not understand that a concussion (in this circumstance) could have very well led to depression that was brought on my damage to the brain... if that's the case the help might not be "there for them" because they are not thinking right, maybe not thinking at all.

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying that depression is always caused by brain damage. My bad.

NEELY wrote:

Dash wrote:

NEELY wrote:

spader wrote:

NEELY wrote:Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain.

No.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118115428.htm

Good call.

But it's not the only causation. Depression and other mental illnesses are the result of neurotransmitters not functioning properly, whether it be too much neurotransmitters collecting in synapses, or over activity in synapses. More or less right. That is why pharmaceutical in conjunction with therapeutic treatment is the only effective treatment.

Yes, there's a lot of correlation between brain trauma and these spots on the brain that resemble Alzheimers/Dementia, but studies have a long way to go.

Absolutely. The point I am trying to make, long and short. you get hit in the head enough, you become Cussed up and unless there is some way of being able to repair brain cells or w/e else is damaged up there, things like this will continue to happen.

The problem was with your statement... it came off like a blanket declaration that depression was solely as a result from damage to the brain.

"Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain. "

The article you linked says it better:

"Depression is one of a number of persisting symptoms experienced by athletes following sports concussion."

There's certainly a correlation.

I sense Damien Cox is getting ready to get up on his soap box...

NEELY wrote:

spader wrote:

NEELY wrote:Depression is a side effect from damage to the brain.

No.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118115428.htm

Good call.

I think what you meant to say is that blows to the head definitely definitely can lead to depression. What it sounded like was all depressions are caused by blows to the head, and that's what spader was denying.

If that's how it was taken then my bad. My point was getting hammered in the head enough can lead to it.

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Travis-Yost/The-Stark-Reality-of-Depression-in-Sports/134/37599

Yost's article on depression in sports.

NEELY wrote:If that's how it was taken then my bad. My point was getting hammered in the head enough can lead to it.

Exactly... "can". Just like smoking "can" cause cancer, but not necessarily will. Just the same, depression does not cause suicide.