Do you watch celebrities and their health?

Over at b5Media, in the Health and Wellness channel, we're having a Celebrity Health week. The goal is for the bloggers of the various topics to find celebrities to write about. While some bloggers are having an easy time, others are having a more difficult time because of their topic. Some issues are not easily spoken of if you are a celebrity.

When Michael J. Fox announced that he had Parkinson's disease, it definitely raised the awareness of the disease and probably contributed to a rise in donations for research. And the same happens with other diseases. But what about the diseases that aren't mentioned, like mental illness and suicide?

When a celebrity commits suicide, it's all over the news for a while and then it dies down as if nothing had ever happened. I've addressed the topic of suicide here before. I strong, strongly believe that if the numbers of people who are dying from suicide were to be dying of a disease or accident by a particular consumer product, there would be research galore and public outcry.

But, with mental illness and suicide, there is no public outcry. There is no push for research. There is no money to help these people - who feel they have no way out - keep from ending their lives. Which, by the way, tends to repeat itself in families, especially among males. Because my brother committed suicide, his sons are at a higher risk of doing so as well. And yet, what is being done? Nothing. Nothing at all.

Sad, isn't it?

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