Alonzo Spellman off the deep end
by Kevin
Ok, this story is scary: Spellman again in trouble, after terrorizing passengers.
Alonzo Spellman, who last played for the Detroit Lions, was committed to a psychiatric hospital after the July 23 disturbance on a flight from Cincinnati to Philadelphia, authorities said.
Investigators said the 6-foot-6, 320-pound defensive end terrified passengers, first by yelling about the possibility of a crash, then by cursing, calling a female passenger an offensive name and threatening to smash a flight attendant’s head with his cleats.
As if people aren’t edgy enough flying these days but to have some huge guy ranting and screaming and threatening violence, wow. I hope he can get help before something tragic happens.
Mr. Spellman has untreated bipolar disorder. It’s very common with biopolar type II people to be paraniod, delusional and angry. I know because I’m one of those people. I have both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. With medication it’s totally treatable. You can live a somewhat normal life. It’s tragic that his career has had to be interrupted by this disease. If caught sooner, he could have kept on playing and none of this would have happened. But then again, there’s the big stigma attatched to mental health.
Men that large, with unstable brains should be destroyed. Bi-polarizm is not cureable and like so many other mental disorders, patients often feel better after a short time on the medication and then put those of us who are of no risk at to other at risk. No. I don’t want to have Mr. Spellman or anyone else deemed unstable without armed supervision. If I’m not threatening the flight, neither will you. I take my son on those aircraft and If I think for one second that you’re risking his life. Well, that sacrifice will be an easy one to make. The unstable element is getting off the aircraft, then and there!
hello Sir,
My name is Kunal Ghosh and i am a resident of India.My mother has been a patient of severe depression since the last two years.Let me give you a brief history of her case:
It was the year 1999 and i was at high school.My father was working abroad in Singapore for the last 2 yrs.He was due to return to India duing 2000 at the end of his contract.I am the only son in the family and i have no siblings.So one night suddenly my mother started having some hallucinations about my father and her anxiousness about my father reached alarming proportions.She used to call him everyday and cried continuously.She constantly had the belief in her mind that her husband would not return from Singapore.This continued for about three months and this forced my father to return in the middle of his contract.In this period i also noticed another personality taking over her which was very angry and she had no knowledge about this when that other personality left her,though this occured only once or twice.She also started suspecting people whom she thought would harm her or her family.I referred her to a psychiatrist but that was of not great help.Things continued till my father returned and everything got back to normal.We were very happy till another incident took place in our life.I was selected in one of the best universities of India and i had to leave home.This happened in the year 2001.Suddenly after 2 or 3 days of my leaving home history repeated itself and she started having the same hallucinations about me,though my father was there with him.I was never told anything in details because it could give me sleepless nights and this would have affected my studies.But when i returned home for vacations i noticed the change in her.She was never the same.She at times started crying and at times got very angry over small things.Things improved for a while in the middle but it again went back.though as of today she is in more of a depression rather than anything else.She constantly tells me that she is worried a lot when she is lonely and alone(She is a house wife and has not had a great deal of education).
So this is the only worry in my life.Due to atmosphere in my school i can succesfully concentrate on my studies but that thing is at the back of my mind always.So could u please advise me on certain things that would help her to recover and lead a normal life?Her interests are music.When this thing started after my coming to the university my psychiatrist recommended her to go to a place where mentally challenged people stay and help them in their daily activities.This worked for a while but she has now lost interest in it.Moreover she is a very introvert personality and thus she does not interact with people around her well.I need ur help badly.I cant see her living like that for long.Maybe after two years i may have to leave India to go abroad for further studies.If the situation continues like this hell may break loose with her.Please help me
my e-mail address is kaunal11@yahoo.com
To Friendly Neighborhood Spider Man: Men and women as small as you with an unstable brain should be destroyed as well. What a stupid, ignorant, remark for you to post. And how stupid am I to respond? Pretty stupid I will be the first to say. And what is more sad is that you make this determination for the sake of your son. I certainly hope you are not shaping yet another young, immpressionable mind by feeding it ignorance and indifference. No one is defending Alonzo Spellman. But fear and raging rampid ignorance is destroying our world. Not bi-bolarism. There is no cure for AIDS, stupidity, racism and small people with a computer either. Should they all be destroyed?