The ex-Eagle and current Dallas Cowboy took 40 painkillers in what some say was an attempt to end his life. His publicist, naturally, is telling a different tale.
To stay up to date on the story go to Philadelphia Will Do.
Terrell Owens Reportedly Tries Suicide
[Disturbingly objectifying photograph courtesy GQ.]
liz | 12:25 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
As a mental health blogger and sports fan myself, I’ve written an extensive post about TO’s suicide attempt. Obviously, so much information has been thrown around from all directions, but no matter which side you fall out on, there’s a lot here that we need to be talking about. You can check it out by clicking on my name below.
I’m from Philadelphia and I like football, so I have to hate Terrell Owens. I’ve been through depression/suicide attempts, so I have to sympathize with Terrell Owens and wish him privacy that he’ll never get. And all the while the cynical half of me is wondering if it’s just another ploy for attention, even though I get angry at people who suggest that any and all suicide attempts are for attention.
And with all that, it’s just a football player. Talk about conflicting thoughts.
Reply: