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Originally Posted by EddyBeers
Doctors can take their "science" and shove it. My neighbor got a concussion while playing hockey in junior, he has not killed anyone yet and is not violent to the best of my knowledge, therefore these neurologists (sounds like a fancy word for someone who does not know that which they speak of) are probably full of it.
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The funny part is that while this mocking is fitting if people were making that exact argument, it's just as fitting if you flip it back on people who are trying to immediately link this to head injuries despite there not being anything to substantiate that argument.
There are hundreds of causes of mental illness, there are many we know little about. There are many possible reasons for someone to take these actions, not all of them related to mental illness. And yet, because he played in the NFL, and despite having no known history of concussions, the immediate reaction from a lot of people seems to be that this is head injury related. It very well could be, but it could very well be hundreds of things, and the fact is that we will likely never know the answer. Saying that doesn't mean you don't believe that head injuries are linked to mental health issues, it means that you don't think that playing that card without anything more than a guess is a reasonable answer.