she killer herself, why??
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mfotheringham — 19 years ago(May 13, 2006 11:23 AM)
She suffered from a lifetime of mental illness. Back then it was not
acknowledged and treated the way it should have been. I believe that even
today we do not have the answers we need. She started to see a once
very promising career go down hill. She hadn't worked for 5 years and
had been divorced 3 years prior to that fateful day. She was an
outpatient at a psychiatric hospital of her home town of Pittsburgh.People
who knew her in her real life said that she was extremely fragile and
vulnerable like the characters she often portrayed. You can look at
someone and think they have everyone thing and have know idea the demons
they are living with-we can't judge or question why. However, ironically,
Sydney Poitier-her lead co-star in her first and most think success film
"A Patch of Blue" stated-not related to Elizabeth, but in a general
speech that if our medical community-health care professional and
psychiatrists fail to get a correct history, fail to see signs, fail
to follow up with patients or take them seriously and unfortunately a
suicide occurs, the responsibility lies in their hands-I personally
tend to agree. Have you ever heard the expression "There are people
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mmitsos-1 — 18 years ago(March 31, 2008 02:11 PM)
That is the whole problem with being unemployed. The longer you remain unemployed, the more it will kill you. I have a friend who has not been able to find a job in her field for four years, and she is very well educated with 20 years of experience. She's been temping and doing a little bit of contract work in her field, but mostly, she has been temping menial, administrative jobs, and it's killing her every day. She has become a recluse, and never calls anyone. I know that she's uncomfortable when I call her from time to time, so, I have taken to just dropping her a line via email. She's still looking, but has been on anti-depressants for two years, and definitely can't live without them anymore.
If this idiot president of ours had any inkling what a lousy job market he has created during the past seven years. I know people who have basically lost their profession for the past seven years, right after 9/11they haven't been able to get back to their titles or salary levels, and I blame it all on Bush's complete negligence of the working middle class, his insane tax cuts for corporations (corporate welfare), and complete fixation on this miserable failure of a war. January 20, 2009 can't come soon enough. Hopefully, with Barack or Hillary in charge, people will be able to get back to real jobs, and fewer people will be suffering from mental breakdowns. An unemployed society is a sick, miserable, struggling and frustrated society. Period. -
Bobby_Dupea — 17 years ago(March 21, 2009 03:27 PM)
Honey child, my issue was with the following childish tirade made below:
If this idiot president of ours had any inkling what a lousy job market he has created during the past seven years. I know people who have basically lost their profession for the past seven years, right after 9/11they haven't been able to get back to their titles or salary levels, and I blame it all on Bush's complete negligence
Which had absolutely
nothing
to do with Elizabeth Hartman's death.
Nah do try to keep up there nah, sugar dumplings. Even if ya are 6 months late in replying, we wouldn't want ya'll ta fall off that there spoon, nah would we
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Bobby_Dupea — 17 years ago(March 22, 2009 10:19 AM)
Uh, Bush had nothing to do with Elizabeth Hartman's death there, honey child. She died in 1987, long before Bush was even President. I know you'd like to blame Bush for all the natural disasters in the world, but not all of us are as Bush-obsessed as you are
Now do try to keep on topic there, honey sugar plum. I realize that's tough with all the ADD you are suffering from, but a ditz like you can find help if you look for it.
Try the yellow pages.
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Bobby_Dupea — 17 years ago(March 24, 2009 11:52 PM)
but that philosophy was in place long before he assumed office.
No darling-kins. That "philosophy" had nothing to do with Hartman's death. Ms. Hartman had been suffering from depression for an number of years before she took her own life. She had access to some of the best treatment that was available at the time but they were to no avail.
Now you can stretch that all you want to like a rubber band, but that doesn't change the facts. The previous poster was using her death as an excuse to rant like a spoiled child about off topic things that had nothing to do with the subject. You don't want to be a spoiled child like he was, do you now sugb68ar plum?
Btw, did you make an appointment about your ADD yet, sweetie pie? With honey & nuts on top? -
Bobby_Dupea — 17 years ago(March 25, 2009 02:44 PM)
Granted I don't believe too much in topic strayingbut when someone makes a point I am compelled to agree or disagree with, I state it.
Well16d0 honey bunch, so do I. First sensible thing you've said. And if someone strays off topic and rants like a spoiled brat, I call them on it, which was the case here.
I've been on many non-political blogs where someone came from out of nowhere and just HAD to inject their political views upon the rest of us. Like, am I really supposed to give a sh!t about that? Go write to your Congressman or something. I came on to those forums to occasionally get away from all that nonsense. There's enough of that out there in the real world that I can't escape from, thankyouverymuch.
Another great Hartman movie that should be scene is "The Beguiled."
Yes I've seen that, although I prefer "A Patch Of Blue". Shelly Winters was the ultimate psychopathic mom. LOL -
UGLYINTHAMORNING — 16 years ago(May 04, 2009 05:17 AM)
and any fool would know Bush had nothing to do with her demise.
Beside, He was on a Cowboy Cocaine daze during that time, looking for Jesus & Chaney under rocks & around telephone poles. Making time with his Manslaugter drunk driving wife Laura & Teaching Family Drinking & Drugs Values to his Two potatoes head kids.
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Bobby_Dupea — 16 years ago(May 08, 2009 08:02 PM)
and any fool would know Bush had nothing to do with her demise.
Well glad to see somebody has some brains around here. Bush may be a lot of things, but he had nothing to do with Hartman.
Some pussies whine about nothing, I guess
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mpoconnor7 — 15 years ago(February 14, 2011 05:02 AM)
It is preposterous to say Bush caused her suicide.
On the other hand, Peg Entwistle, the actress who jumped to her death off the Hollywood sign in 1932, George W. Bush was clearly responsible for her death.