Rick Warren's Son Takes Own Life After Lifelong Battle With Mental Illness

Rick Warren's Son Takes Own Life After Lifelong Battle With Mental Illness

The 27-year-old son of Pastor Rick Warren has taken his own life after a lifelong struggle with mental illness. The internationally known Christian leader at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., made the announcement about his son early Saturday morning in an email sent to his staff.

"He had a brilliant intellect and a gift for sensing who was most in pain or most uncomfortable in a room. He'd then make a bee-line to that person to engage and encourage them," he continued. "But only those closest knew that he struggled from birth with mental illness, dark holes of depression, and even suicidal thoughts. In spite of America's best doctors, meds, counselors, and prayers for healing, the torture of mental illness never subsided. Today, after a fun evening together with Kay and me, in a momentary wave of despair at his home, he took his life."

THE CHRISTIAN POST

TONY DIGIROLAMO
EXEC PRODUCER/CULTURE SHOCK
WE WILL PRAY FOR PASTOR RICK WARREN'S FAMILY TODAY. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
But I know this, it doesn't need to happen if we would only stop and realize that the meds are the horror that takes a person to this horrific unthinkable level.
That is a scientific fact!

Are we over-diagnosing mental illness?

Are we over-diagnosing mental illness?

To ease the heartache of her first child's stillbirth, Kelli Montgomery chose rigorous exercise, yoga and meditation over the antidepressants and sleeping pills that her physicians immediately suggested.
"'You need to be on this medication or that medication.' It was shocking to me that that was the first line of defense," said Montgomery, 42, director of the MISS Foundation for Grieving Families in Austin, Texas. "From the time I was in the hospital to when I was seeing my general practitioner, that's what they were insisting on."

... Protesters such as Montgomery contend diagnoses of serious psychological and psychiatric disorders have also needlessly skyrocketed alongside the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' expanding list of what constitutes mental illness.

CNN

Let's wise up about mental illness and start saving lives

Let's wise up about mental illness and start saving lives

Keith Ablow: The shooting deaths of two men by Thomas Caffall near Texas A&M University—followed by the killing of Caffall by police—marks another in the chain of homicides that will ultimately lead us to reinvigorate and revamp America’s mental health care system.
Only a massive public education campaign about how to identify and get help for those under siege by psychiatric illness, together with state laws that allow psychiatrists wider authority to enforce psychiatric treatment, will, ultimately, do any good.  Changing gun laws will do nothing (unless they were loosened to allow more Americans to defend themselves). Those psychiatrically disordered individuals who murder with no apparent motive—with their minds hobbled by reality-twisting illnesses like severe depression, paranoid disorder and extreme personality disorders—would inflict no fewer casualties with their cars, or with blow torches or with makeshift bombs.

FOX NEWS

TONY DIGIROLAMO

THIS OP-ED BY KEITH ABLOW MISSES THE GREATER PROBLEM BEYOND PSYCHOLOGY ... THE DRUGS!

Yes, I agree and so does my friend now retired, Psychologist, William R. Coulson,psychology is the problem Dr Ablow!

Thank you for coming on board.

It is psychology so called science is anything but a science. A psychologist, author, nameless here said that "psychology is an observable science". That's why every psychologist has a different guessagnosis in this  observable science work. This is not science ... It's a "Pscience".

The prescription therapy plague out of the psychiatry industry is a horror and a train wreck in peoples lives.

Each of the shootings mentioned by Ablow antidepressants were found in the shooters, those who kill themselves and those who do not. Can you see a prolem here Dr Ablow.

But, errors and omissions seems to be the MO for the networks because the drug companies have a stronghold on them... it's called advertising. Doctors, psychs and the broadcasters are compromising their credibility by covering up the dangers of antidepressants and psycotropic drugs.

Take this story at CultureShockTV.com did with a report John Roberts did at Fox as well, "The Antidepressant Omission in Marine Suicides John Roberts reports on Fox News": "He spoke specifically of one soldier that committed suicide and the shock the family was going through in tragedy. There was no clear outward sign that they could recall that would lead him to do this.
Roberts then goes into the story about what the Marine Corp is doing about it.
There sending psychologists into the field to help them.
I won't dwell on his report on what he said as much as what he didn't say. That just drives me mad knowing what I know.
The omission in this report, was did he ask if these soldiers that ended their lives were on antidepressants or antipsychotic drugs. Not a peep not one word or hint that that might be the cause."

Ablow omits an important thread throughout all, ALL of these American tragedies as well.

So please, let's speak frankly here, "very few people are looking at the role of psychology" as WILLIAM R. COULSON knows full well is the problem.

And they and their colleagues are handing out antidepressant drugs like candy!

Ablow says, "Those psychiatrically disordered individuals who murder with no apparent motive ..." Dr, I tell you the drugs gives them a distorted motive! The drug is what puts the chemical imbalance in the brain. The claim that psychology says is to balance the chemicals in the brain. BTW there's no lab test that can verify this Pscience... a myth.