RIP Naomi Judd
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Sincerely tho. They were the first harmonies that I can remember singing to myself. Great songs for the time. She also begot one daughter who had a pretty good window as being hot AF. And the other one had a nice mullet, I guess.
My wife read her book. She has suffered from depression for years. Rumor is she committed suicide
Seems so:
Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered,” Ashley Judd said in a statement on Twitter. Ashley Judd’s publicist verified the statement to CNN.
Ashley Judd tweeted that she lost her mom to mental illness. So that is certainly a possibility
That is what I read on another newsfeed. I think it was speculation but dying from mental illness sounds like a case of suicide to me. RIP
I'm not going to defend suicide because it is an awful thing for everyone involved. Both the person that dies and their loved ones. But unless you've been there, you have no right to judge someone else's feelings.
No this is not directed at anyone that has posted thus far.
No this is not directed at anyone that has posted thus far.
I grew up in the same neighborhood as the Judd family. Her younger brother Brian, who died of Hodgkin's in high school was a buddy of mine. That family really went through a lot of stress and dealt with some huge challenges during that time and Diana (her real name) had it tough for many years as a single mom moving around the country. Really admired her climb to success in the C&W industry. Ashland is very proud of her and her family and some time back renamed a street for them. I'm sure she's now happy in the afterlife.
its 100% suicide. That’s the words to use because people feel suicide has some stigma to it
Official cause was mental illness. So I’d say that’s a solid bet.
Sad.
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This coming from someone who has struggled with his mental health. Don’t suffer alone.
Supposedly the Judds were going to do a national tour in the next year or so. I’d already thought that was a bad idea when I first heard it, based solely on various Naomi interviews I’d seen over the past ten years or so. Then I saw the Judds perform on the CMT Awards a couple weeks ago. My wife and I looked at each other, both of us thinking Naomi has to be on drugs. She looked like she didn’t even know where she was. She only sang during the chorus, and she could barely even sing that part. It was sad. I knew right then there was no way they were going to do another tour. Sometimes you can see these celebrity deaths coming, before it actually happens — because they’re fighting their demons publicly, instead of at home in private. This was another one of those cases. RIP, Momma.
So sad that they were to be inducted into the Country Music HOF on Sunday. What should have been a happy time for her and the family turned into a tragedy. RIP Naomi.
Ripped my heart to hear them saying “sorry we couldn’t keep her going to tonight”.
It was the first thing I said to my Moms friends when I announced her death.
That hurt so bad to see them break down like that.
mental health is no joke folks. I heard a bodybuilder give a talk one time on depression. This was a driven guy. Someone who would let nothing stand in his way. Highly self motivated. And he said one morning it just hit him like a ton of bricks. He didn’t have the energy or drive. He didn’t want to get out of bed. And he told his story of how it took six long hard months to get back to his base self. And he still fights with it today.
It’s no joke and it can hit anyone at anytime.
Take care of yourself folks. If you need a mental break. Take it. If you feel your burning out, talk with you’re boss and friends.
Take it from me when I say laying in your bed will make it worse. And yes, sometimes it’s all you can do.
Call someone. Even if it’s someone who will listen to you screaming and cry your guts out. Suffering in silence is hell. A living waking hell.
Us men? We tend to suck it up. And sometimes that’s actually the worst thing you can do. Those toxic thoughts and tightly bundled emotions? Will eat at your body. Talk to someone. Even if it’s nonsense. Just get it out and TALK. Getting out of your own head does wonders. Even if for five minutes.
I just looked it up on YouTube. She definitely looked out of it. She wasn't really singing just talking mostly through the song.
I’ve never been a fan of contemporary country music but I went with friends to see the Judds and Lee Greenwood in the 80s. I had heard some of their music but was absolutely shocked at how good they sounded live.
Yeah, no doubt. I have an 18 year old son who hid his anxiety until he literally had a breakdown. It was related to internal pressure around baseball and getting to a specific level that he had his sights set on. A variety of horrible circumstance impeded his progress and that, along with the pressure of social media (which to me is about 95% of the issues with most teen and young adult depression/anxiety) and that equals issues. Now 9 months later he is great and finishing his senior year and doing very well at baseball but it just isn't fun for him anymore. Sad for me but good for him. He finally realizes what we had been telling him all along, baseball is just for fun. Don't expect anything out of it and you will continue to love it. If you have expectations then you give yourself the opportunity for disappointment. Ugh, raising kids these days is not easy.
Thanks for sharing this. While baseball could be replaced with any number of other things in your story, as a parent of little guy whose only thoughts happen to revolve around baseball right now, it's always good to hear and read this type of perspective. I coach his team and find myself being hard on him in the heat of the moment sometimes, but then I step back and realize there's just no sense in it. Let 'em have fun.
Sorry to hear he’s been going through that.
Expectations are not a bad thing, but I think a lot of men and young men just think they should take lumps and life punches and go “haha that didn’t hurt”. That needs to stop. Just because we’re men doesn’t mean we’re immune to being hurt.
Glad to hear your son is doing better.
I have a 13 year old daughter who golfs and I see some parents at tournaments pushing their kids like they are the female version of Tiger. You can see the pressure it puts on the kids when they are playing too. I actually told my daughter the other day to not ever let me make her feel that way. I want her to do well because to be honest she is good enough at this age that with some work she could potentially get a free education out of it. However I don't want to pressure her to the point it's not fun. It is a real tightrope walk for sure.
Yeah, I saw it coming years ago and tried to take a very proactive approach to pressure regarding money/scholarships and made it very clear to my son that we were well prepared to pay for his school so he didn't have to worry about it. The problem wasn't the money, it was his perception of what success should look like to him based on social media, which isn't realistic. That's what drove a ton of his issues which is what I would warn you and others about. External pressure comes from all social media and it dominates kids lives these days. The statistics are overwhelming once you look at them and it needs to be addressed. It is going to be a massive issue for many years to come and I worry how extensive the impact will be on society in the future if something isn't done now.
Amen and me too, thankfully most people don't know what a truly dark place means.Official cause was mental illness. So I’d say that’s a solid bet.
Sad.
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This coming from someone who has struggled with his mental health. Don’t suffer alone.
i heard Ashley Judd talking about it on the radio this morning. Talked about how her mom was going into the hall of fame and had a tour coming up, and still felt like she let everyone down and was a failure. People need to speak out and not hide their feelings
Yeah, my father was really bad with my brother, he died before my baseball days. It created a really unhealthy level of competitiveness that bled over to everything. Pushing within reason is necessary for success but it always has to be fun. If pressure builds the fun is almost always gone. I worry a bit about a talented nephew now. Private batting coach, travel ball, school ball, private conditioning coach..... it's too much for lots of kids if not all kids.
Yeah, I don't care too much for Ashley anymore but I wouldn't wish on anyone to find their mother that way. The whole thing is terribly sad.
It’s hard. Because there’s such a stigma behind mental health. Because until you’ve been there you just have no idea how isolating it is.
I’ve had well meaning people tell me to just “suck it up”.
It’s not that simple. In a way I’m glad Covid shine a spotlight on mental health. Because it’s a lot more common than people want to admit.
yep. And it comes from the people you would least expect. I remember the first time I went to a psychiatrist I said I felt awful even wasting her time because I had a great childhood and great parents and didn’t know why I felt the way I did. I said that knowing people that were abused both physically and sexually by their parents that turned out ‘normal’.
doctor just said ‘no one with diabetes has it beat into them. No one with cancer had it raped into them. Don’t hate yourself because of feelings you can’t help’
that’s true. I say that having the worst day I’ve had mentally I almost 6 months.
Today has been rough. You think you’re getting better and BAM. You doze after work and wake up feeling like you did a year ago. I hate it.
With respect, I don't understand the need to preface the second part of your statement with the fact that you don't like Ashley Judd anymore. Not to come at ya, but it would've been classier to just say that you wouldn't wish what happened to the family on anyone. I just see this a lot online now. Before you say something humane about a sad situation, you've gotta make you sure we all know you don't like Ashley that much. Saw the same thing with Vitale and his cancer situation. You don't necessarily need to begin with a negative if you want to finish with a positive.
I can be more blunt, I was being nice. Beyond that, its my business and I said what I wanted to say. Not to come at ya but if I wanted a critique of my statement, I'd have asked for one.