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The Spectacle Blog
Country singer Mindy McCready died on Sunday of an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound. She was 37.
McCready had a string of hits on the country charts in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her 1996 debut album Ten Thousand Angels went double platinum and spawned her biggest hit “Guys Do It All the Time”.
However, in recent years, McCready made headlines not for her music, but her alcohol, drug and various legal problems. She also alleged having a longstanding affair with former big league pitcher Roger Clemens beginning when she was a teenager. Clemens has vehemently denied the affair.
McCready has attempted suicide on several occasions. Her suicide comes only a month after the father of her second child took his own life. She leaves behind two sons aged five and ten months.
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Occam's Tool| 2.18.13 @ 1:39AM
A talented woman and a white trash mother.
Occam's Tool| 2.18.13 @ 1:40AM
No decent human being commits suicide on a five month old.
Occam's Tool| 2.18.13 @ 1:41AM
Sorry, 10 month old. Seriously, she should have been getting help. Yes, I AM a psychiatrist. This is what I fight against. Her kids are the victims.
Bob Grant| 2.18.13 @ 9:21AM
You're a little harsh, Occam.
Frog in Uniform | 2.18.13 @ 6:28AM
Yes Monsieur OT, it's seems so absurd and beyond rational. I guess the death of her lover made her reach the point of no return. In other circumstances she would probably have given everything for her children well being. Human nature is so puzzling at times.
Bob Grant| 2.18.13 @ 9:23AM
Sounds like she's struggled for some time. Regardless of her actions, she's still worthy of prayer.
RIP.
Al Adab| 2.18.13 @ 11:27AM
Another sad victim (and I use the word advisedly) of celebrityitis a dangerous mental condition stemming from the worship with which these people, who rise through talent and public relations/marketing, face when they rise too far and too fast. Never believe your own press release and our political employees should remember as well.
Patrick in Michigan | 2.18.13 @ 12:44PM
A sad one. RIP.
Al_B| 2.18.13 @ 1:10PM
No, I'm afraid Occam is dead (no pun intended) on here. Mindy McCready was a train wreck who hurt everyone she came into contact with. Her selfishness and victimhood are shining examples of what pop culture has made normal over the last twenty years. I'm surprised she lasted as long as she did.
Butch| 2.18.13 @ 7:37PM
I wonder how she wound up in Heber Springs, Arkansas, a vacation town on Greer's Ferry Lake, famous for it's boating, skiing, and trout fishing on the Little Red River which feeds the lake. The town is quite small, boat stores, bait shops, guides, real estate, all of that that goes with that kind of place, not much in the way of mental health facilities, I would think.
Crassus| 2.18.13 @ 10:07PM
She probably wanted some place quiet where she could live in peace and try to rebuild her life and career. Sadly, she wasn't able to do so.
Mick Lee| 2.19.13 @ 7:54AM
As one who has suffered from severe depression, I can tell you that when mentally ill nothing appears as it is. People can (and will) tell you how much they love you and ask what they can do for you. As to love, you can’t hear it. As to help, you are at a complete loss of what to ask for—being asked is an emotional burden. One’s “psychic energy” is drawn low People often think they are helping you, but weeks later, when they ask if you are better, and all you can say is “no”, they often are seethingly angry. Not “feeling better” is exasperating to them; and you are often supposed as being stubborn and/or “lazy”—unwilling to “help” yourself.
When the angel of death comes and offers suicide in his hand, taking one’s life presents itself not as an escape but a relief and act of courage to step into the unknown. When after great struggle you resist and don’t take it, it is then you feel like a coward and a failure It is then you feel resisting as one more disappointment to this life.
The mentally ill and healthy folk occupy and walk about the same earth; yet they don’t live in the same world. Yes, the mentally ill need professional help—often times more than they can get. Calling them cowards has no meaning to them—the words are heard but they seem so beside the point. Healthy people can get all superior about it; but their time would be better spent praying to God that He protect them from evil.
ladydi| 2.19.13 @ 12:18PM
Thank you, Mick, for an intelligent response. Occam says he is a psychiatrist, I find that hard to believe, he or she should be well versed then that the severely depressed are in a completely different world than are the rest of us.
JP| 2.19.13 @ 8:07AM
I never heard of Mindy McCreedy until yesterday. But, from the sounds of it she probably suffered from depression all of her life. In many cases depression begins to manifest itself during the teen years, and according to her bio, she left for Nashville when she was only 16. She probably buried herself in her work, became consumed with "making it", and when that failed she had enough income to indulge in drugs and alcohol.
I've been around people with severe depression most of my life, and it isn't something one can just "kick". To the person suffering from depression, life can litterally be hopeless. Yes, there are medications; but, in most cases they create more problems than they solve.
May she rest in peace, and may Christ have mercy on her soul.
Goldwater Girl| 2.19.13 @ 11:47AM
I can understand her depression and suicidal feelings, but why did she shoot the dog?