Sunday, October 20, 2013

RIP to my Black and Bipolar Brother

Lee Thompson Young, aka Jett Jackson of The Disney Channel Fame, aka fellow Trojan, aka the former roommate of my good friend Reggie, committed suicide about a month and a half ago. I was speaking with Terrie about why someone who seemingly had it all (a career – he was a regular on TNT’s Rizzoli and Isles, an education, good looks) would end it, and we came to the familiar conclusion that you never know exactly what someone may be going through from the outside.

Come to find out, Lee was bipolar as well, (and had been taking his meds according to Toxicology reports), and as unsettling as it was, it made things more understandable. While I could never imagine actively offing my own on switch via depression, mania, its counterpart, can leave someone so out of their rabbit-ass mind, that anything is unfortunately possible.

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