bendog
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- Mar 4, 2013
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Well you'd be depressed too, if you had a kid who tried to kill you with a FOCKKNG CLAW HAMMER! God, the poor woman, I cannot imagine.Surgeon's hero beat illness
"The neurosurgeon, who has used his life story to inspire others to overcome adversity, talked about his mother's battle with mental illness to illustrate a few simple points: Depression is an illness of the brain. It can be treated. It should bring no shame. And it isn't necessarily forever.
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One of 24 children in a poor family in rural Tennessee, Sonya Carson married at 13 to escape the poverty and chaos of her childhood. Her husband got a job as a factory worker, while she worked as a domestic.
But her husband squandered the family's saving on alcohol and gambling. Then, when young Carson was 8, came the crushing news that his father was a bigamist with a wife and children elsewhere."
Clinical depression often runs in families. As does alcoholism. Though I don't think Dr. Carson drinks, given both his parents had mental illnesses (father's problem-gambling is a mental illness,) it raises the question of whether Dr. Carson inherited these or other problems.