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Eulogy for SonId like to thank you all for the outpouring of support and condolences on the loss of my beautiful male child decade. My entire family appreciates it. This is my eulogy to Adam Depression is a terrible disease. Adam suffered so much with a disease that ofttimes goes unrecognized as very serious, or even as a disease, but is often fatal. Many people who meet someone like Adam moot all he needs is tough love - how wrong they are. To those who take aim never had this disease, you cannot imagine how frightening the demons are, how they take over your life, your all(prenominal) thought, your every(prenominal) action. There is no respite within the mind it is constantly on overdrive. Doctors have few clues as to how to treat this. Lord knows how many doctors, tests, psychiatrists, psychologists, well-disposed workers weve seen. Adam was hospitalized at least three times and lived in a residential therapeutic facility for seven months. He tried every anti-depressant dr ug available. He spent another year in the military. The guinea pig Guard and Air Force were brief respites from his torments. He excelled at both(prenominal) and became a poster soldier for the National Guard. He received an right discharge from the Air Force. But, in the long run, the military was ill-equipped to postulate with the disease. Despite his disease Adam had passions, passions for hockey, for music, for his family. He worked out three days a week and studied to better himself. His sense of humor was morbific he saw the world differently and would always see the mockery in life. On Monday driving to the airport after the Super curlicue he saw a gun shop and a hospital next-door. Once at a New Jersey Devils hockey gritty he seemed the only one shocked by the scoreboard message Devils meet the Churches of NJ. Hed always noticed the contradictions in life. But, he was always his own scourge critic - never able to bask in his successes with the military, getting h is GED, make headway a 3-point basket, getting a goal in hockey or fixing complex computer problems. He emulated his brother, David, but disease got in the way. He loved his babe, Deena, more than anything, but was rarely able to shew it. They, in turn, loved him dearly - a better brother and sister theres never been. For that matter, a better mother theres never been.