Yeah, from what I've heard (directly in one case) of people involved with the Mooseheads at the time his issues aren't really shocking. Nothing that's ever been explicitly reported by the media but reading between the lines it seems likely.
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Concussions do not help. We know that there are relationships between concussions and depressions. It would also be logical that if one is prone to depressions through genetics the treshold to developing it from concussions would be less.I hate hearing bullshit like "lazy", "poor work ethic" and "weak mentally" getting trotted out.
Drouin worked hard enough on his profession to be drafted third overall, and he worked hard enough on his profession to do things like post 14 points in 17 playoff games.
We can say that he had character issues here and there for "not reporting" (i.e. trying to take care of his own future) or for whatever off ice indiscretions he's committed where we can go "oh he's a real jerk that guy."
But nobody--nobody--chooses to have chronic health issues.
Age of onset of mental disorders: A review of recent literature - PMC
To review recent epidemiological research on age‐of‐onset (AOO) of mental disorders, focusing on the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys. Median and inter‐quartile range (IQR; 25th–75th percentiles) of AOO is much earlier for phobias (7–14, IQR: ...
For people with neurological health disorders, 34.6% emerge by age 14, 48.4% by age 18, and 62.5% by age 25.
Neurological health disorders like severe clinical depression can occur for people who are otherwise living a wonderful life. How is that? Well, to put it bluntly, their brains f***ing suck at neurochemical regulation due to shit genetic luck.
It's possible that Drouin "cracked under the pressure of Montreal" despite doing well in his on-ice circumstances for the first two years. Maybe he just needed a better sports psychologist.
Or, if it's been as reported, he's missed significant amounts of playing time on two fronts during a career that favours youth: his visible physical injuries, and his neurological disorder that people shit on all the time because they can't see it.
Your brain is an organ. You don't laugh at people with Crohn's Disease for their gastrointestinal tract or people with Diabetes for their kidneys, but apparently it's still okay to deride people for parts of their brain letting them down.
Eh, people can be lazy. Drouin is a hockey junkie, by all accounts. He clearly worked hard to get at the level of skill he is, he still does, well documented by the hype machine that is the Habs. With that said, some people just don't have it to give it their all in the moments that are needed, whether thats when youre playing a hockey game or during your exam period. We can talk about the environemental factors that lead to this if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that he is what he is, and what he is, is uber-talented hockey player that lacks effort in-game and somehow never adapted his game to the pro game. He was like this way before the injuries and the mental disorder.I hate hearing bullshit like "lazy", "poor work ethic" and "weak mentally" getting trotted out.
Drouin worked hard enough on his profession to be drafted third overall, and he worked hard enough on his profession to do things like post 14 points in 17 playoff games.
We can say that he had character issues here and there for "not reporting" (i.e. trying to take care of his own future) or for whatever off ice indiscretions he's committed where we can go "oh he's a real jerk that guy."
But nobody--nobody--chooses to have chronic health issues.
Age of onset of mental disorders: A review of recent literature - PMC
To review recent epidemiological research on age‐of‐onset (AOO) of mental disorders, focusing on the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys. Median and inter‐quartile range (IQR; 25th–75th percentiles) of AOO is much earlier for phobias (7–14, IQR: ...
For people with neurological health disorders, 34.6% emerge by age 14, 48.4% by age 18, and 62.5% by age 25.
Neurological health disorders like severe clinical depression can occur for people who are otherwise living a wonderful life. How is that? Well, to put it bluntly, their brains f***ing suck at neurochemical regulation due to shit genetic luck.
It's possible that Drouin "cracked under the pressure of Montreal" despite doing well in his on-ice circumstances for the first two years. Maybe he just needed a better sports psychologist.
Or, if it's been as reported, he's missed significant amounts of playing time on two fronts during a career that favours youth: his visible physical injuries, and his neurological disorder that people shit on all the time because they can't see it.
Your brain is an organ. You don't laugh at people with Crohn's Disease for their gastrointestinal tract or people with Diabetes for their kidneys, but apparently it's still okay to deride people for parts of their brain letting them down.
That's what a bunch of people who didn't know any better said about the other trainwreck, Galchenyuk.
No one ever accused Bergevin of being smart
