ESPN Report: Terrell Owens attempts suicide

[Longtimefan]

While TO throughout his career may have posted some ideals and attitudes that inflame some of us, do we have to think of him as less an individual?
There may be quite a few here who do not quite understand the power of depression. In November 1997 when I was diagnosed with stage four Squamous Cell Carcinoma (head and neck) primary tumor located at the base of my tongue, requiring external beam radiation therapy, Chemotherapy, as well as surgery, I know a little about depression. I was on depression medication for nine months, and still take one hundred sixty milg's of Oxycontin daily just to survive the pain. Fortunately, I never had the desire to take my own life, depression can be a troubling, and a menaceing ordeal, and for those who think slight of it, I trust you never have to experience it.
You will never know, or understand it's complexities until you've been there, and done it.
Didn't mean to bore you with my life's transgressions, but try to understand what we're talking about here.