t talks about their struggles and CP's success and LP's failures in life after football. The one thing it left out and Tom maybe didn't share it was how Tom had visited LP in prison.
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Fair article IMO in the USA Today about LP and CP.
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Good friend of mine took his life about a week ago, worked at the Bike Rack and battled being bipolar his whole life. He was constantly battling demons, just was never quite "right" and eventually he lost the battle. Point is, some people, like LP, and my friend, were not born "normal" in their wiring and you have to make allowances for that when trying to make sense of their actions. LP was never right in the head and his end was the only way his life was going to end. If it didn't happen a few days ago, it would have been the same thing only later, and I feel sorry for him to be honest.
sorry. I tried a couple of different ways and couldn't figure it out. I think my anti-virus/firewall was blocking it for some reason.
Sorry about your friend. I have a family member that is bipolar and has struggled with different addictions his whole life. The drugs he's been prescribed over the years seem to work (to a point) but they all have different side effects. When he goes off his meds, it's a downhill slide and he's completely unpredictable.
I'm not going to attempt to draw parallels to LP, but I can say with certainty that he was a victim of many things, including mental illness. That is a huge challenge to face in life before even getting to his lack of any semblance of a childhood.