Maybe Gregg Doyel Needs to Get Some Help

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Here's an article. Of course people who are performers do radio shows because it is their job. They don't call in to radio shows they aren't required to for work and say they feel like committing suicide. My meaning was misconstrued.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-robin-williams-last-days-20140813-story.html

If you were to run into me in a social situation you would have thought either 'this guy is hilarious' or 'this guy is an obnoxious douche' but you would not have thought 'huh, what a depressed little wallflower.' But this past year was my first time dealing with depression in a decade. And like always I only realize as I'm coming out of it that I was depressed. I'm addressing it with diet and exercise. This isn't a plea for help or attention.

But that is why I don't think sweeping statements about what a depressed person would or would not do is ever going to be accurate. Just because Doyel is depressed doesn't mean he doesn't feel like he should or even has to do things like call into talk shows as part of his job. I didn't miss any work other than for regular sickness and my job involved (I've moved on) dealing with high-anxiety clients in multiple phone calls every day.

My guess is that people like Doyel feel a considerable amount of pressure to stay in the limelight, to make radio and TV appearances whenever they can because keeping their face and name in the public eye is key to their ongoing employment.

 

[PatriotsReign]

He may have anxiety too, which can cause this.

It is often said that "depression is anger turned inward"....so when one feels a lot of anger, they can seem like AH's. Depression isn't just a feeling of sadness.

I hope for Doyel's sake, he gets some help. That is up to him and only him. I have no idea, but I'm wondering if he may have substance abuse issues (I've been there myself). The stuff he said in the interview may be his way of reaching out for help.

 

[PatriotsReign]

If you were to run into me in a social situation you would have thought either 'this guy is hilarious' or 'this guy is an obnoxious douche' but you would not have thought 'huh, what a depressed little wallflower.' But this past year was my first time dealing with depression in a decade. And like always I only realize as I'm coming out of it that I was depressed. I'm addressing it with diet and exercise. This isn't a plea for help or attention.

But that is why I don't think sweeping statements about what a depressed person would or would not do is ever going to be accurate. Just because Doyel is depressed doesn't mean he doesn't feel like he should or even has to do things like call into talk shows as part of his job. I didn't miss any work other than for regular sickness and my job involved (I've moved on) dealing with high-anxiety clients in multiple phone calls every day.

My guess is that people like Doyel feel a considerable amount of pressure to stay in the limelight, to make radio and TV appearances whenever they can because keeping their face and name in the public eye is key to their ongoing employment.

Continuous stress is bad for anyone. I can relate to high-anxiety, multiple phone calls, webcasts and travelling. We're humans, not machines...I wish more companies would consider that fact.

 

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If you were to run into me in a social situation you would have thought either 'this guy is hilarious' or 'this guy is an obnoxious douche' but you would not have thought 'huh, what a depressed little wallflower.' But this past year was my first time dealing with depression in a decade. And like always I only realize as I'm coming out of it that I was depressed. I'm addressing it with diet and exercise. This isn't a plea for help or attention.

But that is why I don't think sweeping statements about what a depressed person would or would not do is ever going to be accurate. Just because Doyel is depressed doesn't mean he doesn't feel like he should or even has to do things like call into talk shows as part of his job. I didn't miss any work other than for regular sickness and my job involved (I've moved on) dealing with high-anxiety clients in multiple phone calls every day.

My guess is that people like Doyel feel a considerable amount of pressure to stay in the limelight, to make radio and TV appearances whenever they can because keeping their face and name in the public eye is key to their ongoing employment.

Good luck. He might have problems, but I think someone that's severely depressed to the point of suicide is likely to be direct and aggressive about it. I also said, I think there's a wide spectrum of people that might be considered clinically depressed, probably not to the point of suicide, fortunately.

I'm only going from what I know and have observed. I'm sure he feels pressure to keep his name out there. Lots of entertainers suffer from depression and function. I'll stand by what I think.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...pert-answers/clinical-depression/faq-20057770

 

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Continuous stress is bad for anyone. I can relate to high-anxiety, multiple phone calls, webcasts and travelling. We're humans, not machines...I wish more companies would consider that fact.

Yeah - I do network security for fortune 500 companies and it is brutal. In 4 years at the same job we had, without exaggeration, 15x the turnover that I had in my previous job over 10 years. It's killed my enthusiasm for IT entirely and now I just want to work at a Home Depot or something.

OT, obviously.

 

[Joker]

depressed?...jeez, when I was born the doc got so depressed he slapped my mother....rimshot