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Delonte West, Mental Health, Tony Reali

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Songbird, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    A cop videotaped Delonte West shirtless and in handcuffs and ranting.





    Tony Reali spoke out about it.


     
    Last edited: Jan 22, 2020
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

  3. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Should I know who Tony Reali is? Because I've no idea.
     
  4. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    He has hosted Around the Horn for 16 years while playing stat man on PTI (or did till a few years ago).
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    At its heart, Horace and Pete's was about mental illness.

    This is one of the scenes that epitomizes how the brain and mind and mental illness are intertwined and how we choose do deal with it in different people. The one woman has Tourette's and can't help herself when the string of expletives fly out of her mouth. The other woman is an alcoholic and can't help it when the string of expletives fly out of her mouth.

    We choose to treat one like an adorable but sick puppy doggy. We choose to treat the other with scorn and shame.

    But both of their brains are fucked up. Both of their brains are equally ill, right?

     
  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    As long as mental illness is just another YouTube click and punch line, we're not going to make any progress.
     
  7. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    We stopped giving a shit about making progress when Reagan closed the mental health facilities.
     
  8. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    Those don't make money. Private for-profit prisons do.
     
  9. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    I guess LeBron's mother has long since ditched Delonte.
     
  10. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Well...some of them were shut down because of the way they treated patients.

    Mental illness is hard as hell to deal with, beyond platitudes of a sports broadcaster. There's a big gulf between upper-middle class ennui and depression out of lack of significance and meaning and what Delonte West is going through. Not surprisingly, we're increasingly spending more time focused on the former, and our medical community, long eager for patients with nice bank accounts, are more than willing to treat them.
     
  11. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Check your history. The closing of state mental health hospitals happened well before Reagan and was driven by the concern of liberals for the patients' rights.
     
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  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Correct.
     
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