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 Post subject: Jessica Starr commits suicide
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:07 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Jessica Starr commits suicide
PostPosted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 2:17 pm 
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I don't get the article............... People don't commit suicide from LASIK side-effects................. Maybe if you were completely & permanently BLINDED you might head down that road...

Her problems are much deeper than her need for eye drops and glasses.............


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I don't know. I'll take it for their word, they knew her and I don't. Hate to think she was in such pain she couldn't get any relief.


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Sure cant speculate with any authority but so often the side effects of meds for, during or after surgery call mess up the mind. :cry:

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Just got home from work - and saw the sad news. Always thought she was attractive - great smile. Had no idea she was 35 and had 2 kiddos. Has to be awful and tragic for the family. RIP Jessica.


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RIP Jessica :cry:

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Sure cant speculate with any authority but so often the side effects of meds for, during or after surgery call mess up the mind. :cry:

I can tell you it's true. While under care after major surgery after a bad car accident the meds I was given gave me hallucinations, nightmares and an inability to separate what was real from what wasn't. It scared the crap out of me sometimes.


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So sad

As many of us know Shannon Bream had a cornea issue that took years to be properly diagnosed and corrected.
Here is what she said on Twitter about this tragedy.
@ShannonBream
I don't presume to know exactly what happened with this precious young woman, but I know the excruciating pain I experienced for years as my cornea condition was undiagnosed. I felt 100% despondent. PLEASE know there is help. 800-273-TALK
https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status ... 4742897664

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 Post subject: Re: Jessica Starr commits suicide
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After watching Fox 2 and even WXYZ-ABC7, the common theme everyone brought up was family.

Sure, we often think of many TV stations as competition. Most importantly, everyone is rooting for each other. When an unspeakable tragedy hits home like this, you have to really feel for Jessica's two young children. They won't know what hit them until years down the road.

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I know more than most about suicide and I've had LASIK and know many others who have. There are no medications involved. They zap your eyes with a laser to correct your vision and you're done in 10 minutes. You will have discomfort for a few days and most will have dry eyes. I've had chronic dry eyes since (nearly 20 years). You use eye drops. You don't commit suicide because your eyes are dry. Especially when you are a mom with 2 kids........... You do kill yourself for many other reasons - and she is clearly depressed in the video....... But you don't kill yourself because of LASIK surgery. Those who knew her - obviously don't care enough to even notice or admit the real cause so they blame LASIK........

Sorry Jessica, we weren't able to correct your vision to 20/20.......... You may need to wear glasses for certain tasks........... Dry eye? Here is some over the counter drops found in mass quantities at any walmart......... still dry? Here's a script for Restasis......... Yeah it's expensive, but your insurance plan will cover it............ STILL UPSET? Well I guess you can just end it and I'm sure your kids will understand that mommy COULDN'T LIVE with the idea of wearing glasses for reading.........

get real....... This lady had actual long-term depression and NO ONE paid enough attention to SEE it...... Perhaps her husband needed the corrective surgery as he couldn't take the time to talk to his wife. All that said - it's even possible for the best of us to miss the signs and you can't prevent every suicide.


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 Post subject: Re: Jessica Starr commits suicide
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bigzman wrote:
After watching Fox 2 and even WXYZ-ABC7, the common theme everyone brought up was family.

Sure, we often think of many TV stations as competition. Most importantly, everyone is rooting for each other. When an unspeakable tragedy hits home like this, you have to really feel for Jessica's two young children. They won't know what hit them until years down the road.

So sad.


True, if you are on twitter and/or Instagram and look at a local TV anchor/reporter page there's at least a few followers from competition and some in other markets and heck even some national people.


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 Post subject: Re: Jessica Starr commits suicide
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Jay Z wrote:
I know more than most about suicide and I've had LASIK and know many others who have. There are no medications involved. They zap your eyes with a laser to correct your vision and you're done in 10 minutes. You will have discomfort for a few days and most will have dry eyes. I've had chronic dry eyes since (nearly 20 years). You use eye drops. You don't commit suicide because your eyes are dry. Especially when you are a mom with 2 kids........... You do kill yourself for many other reasons - and she is clearly depressed in the video....... But you don't kill yourself because of LASIK surgery. Those who knew her - obviously don't care enough to even notice or admit the real cause so they blame LASIK........

Sorry Jessica, we weren't able to correct your vision to 20/20.......... You may need to wear glasses for certain tasks........... Dry eye? Here is some over the counter drops found in mass quantities at any walmart......... still dry? Here's a script for Restasis......... Yeah it's expensive, but your insurance plan will cover it............ STILL UPSET? Well I guess you can just end it and I'm sure your kids will understand that mommy COULDN'T LIVE with the idea of wearing glasses for reading.........

get real....... This lady had actual long-term depression and NO ONE paid enough attention to SEE it...... Perhaps her husband needed the corrective surgery as he couldn't take the time to talk to his wife. All that said - it's even possible for the best of us to miss the signs and you can't prevent every suicide.


I've been debating if I should reply to this or not but here it goes. Unless you were in her head, you don't know, I don't know, and all on here don't know. There's one person who what she did and she not here to tell her story. Guessing some went wrong during her LASIK surgery, not all surgeries go according to plan. We don't know if she took medication and if that medication had side effects. I doubt if she was in a right state of mind she would have killed herself. Also, we don't know if she had mental problems. I don't think it's fair to be taking shots at her friends, co-workers, and her husband especially he has a raise the kids on his own and has to tell his kids what happened to mummy either now or somewhere down the line. He got to deal with enough crap. I will say this, I do think news networks should have an in-house psychiatrist or at least one or two on call because I think only National Networks and probably top 10 markets can afford an in-house psychiatrist heck some stations have psychiatrists as personalities. After Anthony Bourdain, I thought about that. How many times have reporters been on location to tragedies like mass-shootings? I'm sure it's not easy for the anchors as well to cover these stories in the studio. Plus they got to deal with people like us who criticize them on wardbode, making a mistake on-air, among other things. OK I don't know how many of us criticize ladies we talk about here or those we don't like most local TV talent. I remember there was a local talent in my neck of the woods who went on FB Live and cried went she was covering the Pulse Nightclub shooting.


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 Post subject: Re: Jessica Starr commits suicide
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...I will say this, I do think news networks should have an in-house psychiatrist or at least one or two on call because I think only National Networks and probably top 10 markets can afford an in-house psychiatrist heck some stations have psychiatrists as personalities. After Anthony Bourdain, I thought about that. How many times have reporters been on location to tragedies like mass-shootings? I'm sure it's not easy for the anchors as well to cover these stories in the studio. Plus they got to deal with people like us who criticize them on wardbode, making a mistake on-air, among other things. OK I don't know how many of us criticize ladies we talk about here or those we don't like most local TV talent. I remember there was a local talent in my neck of the woods who went on FB Live and cried went she was covering the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

Good points newsguy. Fortunately in lots of professional fields like the one I was in the health plans are top notch and include mental health benefits. We are also fortunate here in America to have many more mental health professionals than in other first world countries like France for example. Sadly there is still enough stigma to seeking mental health counseling that some people and probably lots of them don't get help when they need it and the results can be terrible as in Jessica's case. Also sad is that with the cost of health care and the wanting higher and higher profits in-house psychiatrists are unlikely. Good insurance and bringing in mental health counseling teams after tragic events like they do at schools after a suicide, mass shooting, etc. is helpful of course.


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Saw this tweet and well take a look.

https://twitter.com/CassieFambro/status ... 9606824960


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Social media is a cesspool. The sad part is people actually pay attention to the cruel things people post.


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 Post subject: Re: Jessica Starr commits suicide
PostPosted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 12:03 pm 
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notter59 wrote:
Social media is a cesspool. The sad part is people actually pay attention to the cruel things people post.


Agreed, Social media is rough. I'm sure hate mail/email/social media comments has been around since TV news came about. There have been cases like this like Ginger Zee posted some mean comments from time to time. However, I looked at Mrs. Starr page and discovered this from someone who posted this actually a few.

http://lasikcomplications.com/suicide.h ... 3A4KlKApv0

and this

http://lasikcomplications.com/?fbclid=I ... ZgF--efR3o

Apparently, what happened to her isn't that uncommon.


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