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re: Please tell me how rich celebrities/athletes/musicians get depressed
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:54 am to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:54 am to genuineLSUtiger
I've heard many people say that some of the best art comes from a place of darkness or sadness. I guess that's why you see so many comedian, musicians, and actors dying at a young age
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Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:33 am to CatsGoneWild
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If you're a millionaire, you can just go out and buy stuff or take a vacation whenever you want. Or go date someone better looking than you. Or you can go for a ride in your luxury car. I just don't get how rich people get depressed. Try living in a normal persons shoes where you barely get by.
Re-read your post. It reads like you believe buying stuff, taking vacations whenever you want, and riding in luxury cars will make you sustainably happy. Any chance spending money on things you want and don't need (possibly in order to date people better looking than you) is the reason why you barely get by?
This post was edited on 5/19/17 at 7:35 am
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:34 am to CatsGoneWild
Op is so dumb... depression is a mental illness. It can happen to anyone, like the flu.
Please tell me how rich people get cancer... same thinking
Please tell me how rich people get cancer... same thinking
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:46 am to oleyeller
I think folks here have nailed it that mental illness is mental illness, and it seems that the artists/musicians/creative types who use emotion so much in their careers tend towards mental illness.
As a practical dude though if I put myself in this situation- I once was on top of the world, playing to sold out stadia all over the world, my face on magazines and TV, and now 30 years later I have to continually tour and sing the same songs for the 13,000th time, but now I'm playing to 200 rather than 20,000- how depressing would that be, knowing that I have peaked and will never reach that peak again?
As a practical dude though if I put myself in this situation- I once was on top of the world, playing to sold out stadia all over the world, my face on magazines and TV, and now 30 years later I have to continually tour and sing the same songs for the 13,000th time, but now I'm playing to 200 rather than 20,000- how depressing would that be, knowing that I have peaked and will never reach that peak again?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:46 am to CatsGoneWild
chemical imbalance in the brain that screws them up?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:48 am to bigtiger440
quote:And you'd be happy for a little while. And then you'd want a bigger boat. It never stops.
But it can buy me a boat
Posted on 5/19/17 at 7:59 am to CatsGoneWild
quote:Werid to see some so out of touch with reality. Talking about the OP, to clarify lol.
If you're a millionaire, you can just go out and buy stuff or take a vacation whenever you want. Or go date someone better looking than you. Or you can go for a ride in your luxury car. I just don't get how rich people get depressed
He acts with a rich people are robots with no feelings.
Also, OP doesn't have much money as he's clueless on that part of it as well.
This post was edited on 5/19/17 at 8:00 am
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:00 am to CatsGoneWild
quote:Pssst, that doesn't make your problems go away. It just makes you have to deal with them a week later.
I would fly to an island if i got sad
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:02 am to Rand AlThor
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If you seriously believe money can't buy happiness Idk what to tell you, you're doing happiness wrong.
You poor dumb fool. I pity you.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:07 am to Rand AlThor
All that you said, yet you're still wrong. If money could truly buy happiness, people like Cornell wouldn't commit suicide.
It's sad that you think happiness lies within material objects. True happiness comes from within.
People can often buy a lot of bullshite to try and mask their depressions, but inside, they'll still be depressed. They may not appear it because of their material possessions, but it's all a front.
Again, you're thinking happiness lies within material objects and that's simply not true happiness, although having money can help ease some of the burden.
It's sad that you think happiness lies within material objects. True happiness comes from within.
People can often buy a lot of bullshite to try and mask their depressions, but inside, they'll still be depressed. They may not appear it because of their material possessions, but it's all a front.
Again, you're thinking happiness lies within material objects and that's simply not true happiness, although having money can help ease some of the burden.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:13 am to CatsGoneWild
If I were famous I'd be smashing OT 9+ poon every night of the week, with bitches sucking my toes and rimming my arse. frick being depressed
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:20 am to I am GLORIOUS
I thought that was a daily occurrence for everyone on the OT anyways? 
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:24 am to I am GLORIOUS
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If I were famous I'd be smashing OT 9+ poon every night of the week, with bitches sucking my toes and rimming my arse. frick being depressed
Imagine going to bed every night wondering if any single person in your life actually cares about you or they are just pretending to while they try to get your money.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:29 am to CatsGoneWild
In a way I am almost jealous of people who believe that money alone can make people happy. Clearly they have never had to deal with crippling mental illness, either themselves or with someone they are very close to.
I almost wish I could think that.
I almost wish I could think that.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:30 am to CatsGoneWild
It's usually the channeling of their disease and depression into art that causes musicians to be famous in the first place
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:32 am to CatsGoneWild
You've got it all wrong there. I write features about major bands and their lives are not anything like you obviously think from your missive. When on tour they are locked in on each venue to try and offer their best performance from sound checks to meeting with the fans for questions and pictures before the shows --- and on and on. There is really hardly any down time. Then, there's putting together the next collection of songs when the tours are over. It's a lot more stress than you think.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:36 am to CatsGoneWild
Biochemical issues - just like poor people that are depressed.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:39 am to CatsGoneWild
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Try living in a normal persons shoes where you barely get by.
All the baggage you have before you get Rich and famous come with you into that life, but let's just set aside the realities of depression, addiction and mental disorders in general. Often, when people achieve some goal they set for themselves they find they are in a quandary about what comes next and often lose focus, lose heart and/or begin to question why this achievement has left them unfulfilled.
I've personally seen this with a friend who did not get rich but instead outlived his terminal prognosis. He was great about taking care of himself, avoiding those lifestyle habits that helped to create the disease that he was dying from and keeping an upbeat positive attitude. But as he passed the life expectancy, those good habits peeled away a little at a time. He died alone in seedy hotel room with booze nearby. Still makes me sad to think about it. It was like he could do those things to help himself until he met his goal of living to that point but once he was beyond the goal, he lost his focus and desire to keep going.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:53 am to CatsGoneWild
I can see where fame would drive a person insane. I'd personally loathe fame. People are constantly trying to get nudes of you. You can't go out in public without people constantly harassing you. It feeds an incredible degree of narcissism into you very forcibly. The paparazzi are constantly harassing you. You always have to be on your toes in fear that someone with an iPhone can ruin you if you frick up. You are also only as good as your last gig, and that can drive some celebrities insane if they're in a slump. If you frick up live on camera in front of millions, they'll never let you live it down. People online will constantly say horrible shite about you right to your face where you will likely read it, and most of the time it's undeserved.
Personally I'd like to be rich, but being famous seems to be hell to me. I'd far rather make 200K a year and no one bother me than to make 10 million a year with fame being the baggage.
Personally I'd like to be rich, but being famous seems to be hell to me. I'd far rather make 200K a year and no one bother me than to make 10 million a year with fame being the baggage.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 8:57 am to Crusty Juggler
You can have millions of dollars... but if you ain't got your health you ain't got shite....
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