stuff like this that keeps giving gear a bad rap.....

[thetorch2k1]

17 yr old kills himself after steroid-related depression


I feel bad of course for someone losing their son, but this shit just pisses me off. This stuff isn't for irresponsible kids to be using, period.

 

[genarr3]

The parents have to blame something or someone other then themselves.

 

[02gixxersix]

The kid probably just had problems and the parents need something to blame to make themselces feel better. You still gotta feel sorry for their loss though.

 

[INNOCENT]

The kid probably just had problems and the parents need something to blame to make themselces feel better. You still gotta feel sorry for their loss though.

true

 

[javaguru]

I think this quote says it all,

Don Hooton said Taylor was being treated for depression by a psychologist and psychiatrist, although neither linked his condition to steroids.

Regardless of their loss there is no need to go on a "crusade" against steroids when they weren't even implicated by the mental health professionals treating him.

 

[magman1]

its like when that family blamed accutane for their kid crashing a plane into a building

 

[Stryker1992]

I am a psychologist and I can tell you that this kid was depressed far before the AAS came on the scene. It will never be a steroid induced crash by itself that pushes someone to act that severly, just like the supposed "roid rage". Everything is multifactorial and this kid had problems worse than steroid use that caused this.

Everyone just needs a scapegoat to comfort themselves.

 

[tiger88]

always bame steroids if something goes wrong

 

[sh4dowf4lcon]

Easier for the parents to look around at everyone else first. Take the tree trunk out of your own eye, before you attempt to remove the splinter from your neighbor's eye.

 

[paul2110]

I hate it when this happens.

It's just like blaming eminem when some kid shoots someone.

The crusade should be about helping kids to deal with depression, not to take action against steroids.

The roids were incidental in this case - the kid might have been on anti-depressants or might have taken headache pills, but because these are legal drugs, no-one mentions them.