[jonnyss]

I didn't really see much in that article to suggest she was alcoholic, but God knows it can manifest in many ways.  Her depression, though, sounds horrible.  What she must have gone through is difficult to comprehend.  Situations like this are tragic.  Everyone nearby has their life irreversibly altered.  My thoughts will dwell on this for a while.

i believe phogge posted that kelly's death brought back memories of a highly accomplished friend who could not be reasoned out of drinking himself to death.

on the "does an athlete need to see a sports psychiatrist issue," i agree. you probably don't. i don't know if stanford did this, but you certainly can create a problem by bragging to patient and family that you have the best specialists, uniquely trained to treat a certain problem, then not actually making those specialists available to the patient.

in the series of ny times articles on campus suicide last year, several universities made a point of saying that they had taken care to match the depressed student with a psychiatrist in the community and followed up to make sure the treatment was progressing. the reports on kelly imply that stanford dropped the ball on ensuring she was connected with a therapist/psychiatrist.

that said, in my experience, such deaths often involve a perfect storm of contributing factors: a reluctant patient, an institution that drops the ball, a family that hears the student plans to kill herself "in the next month" then hesitates to fly in and hospitalize her or camp on her doorstep.

[jonnyss]

I didn't really see much in that article to suggest she was alcoholic, but God knows it can manifest in many ways.  Her depression, though, sounds horrible.  What she must have gone through is difficult to comprehend.  Situations like this are tragic.  Everyone nearby has their life irreversibly altered.  My thoughts will dwell on this for a while.

i believe phogge posted that kelly's death brought back memories of a highly accomplished friend who could not be reasoned out of drinking himself to death.

on the "does an athlete need to see a sports psychiatrist issue," i agree. you probably don't. i don't know if stanford did this, but you certainly can create a problem by bragging to patient and family that you have the best specialists, uniquely trained to treat a certain problem, then not actually making those specialists available to the patient.

in the series of ny times articles on campus suicide last year, several universities made a point of saying that they had taken care to match the depressed student with a psychiatrist in the community and followed up to make sure the treatment was progressing. the reports on kelly imply that stanford dropped the ball on ensuring she was connected with a therapist/psychiatrist.

that said, in my experience, such deaths often involve a perfect storm of contributing factors: a reluctant patient, an institution that drops the ball, a family that hears the student plans to kill herself "in the next month" then hesitates to fly in and hospitalize her or camp on her doorstep.