Wow I had no idea. I'm very torn about how I feel about this. Part of me feels really guilty that I don't feel as much sympathy as I think I should.
I lived in Toyon with Debi during her freshman year and would consider us friends that year. I saw her off to the World Championships (helped her get her stuff into a cab at 5am). We briefly reconnected in the 90s when she was at Northwestern Med School and I was at Kellogg - but she was just too busy to sustain any kind of contact.
I feel terrible that this has all happened to her and I hope she can get back on her feet, but at the same time I look at how much she had (and threw away) and wonder how this could have happened. It's gonna be tough for me to watch the show but maybe I'll feel more sympathetic afterwards.
UPDATE: So I watched the clips online and while I feel bad for her I can't be too sympathetic because she sees the problems she has but won't do anything about them. Looks like she is bipolar, but she doesn't seem to want to get help for it. She's living with an alcoholic with anger issues who has physically abused her and, bipolar or not, she won't get out. I hope she wakes up, gets out of that situation, and gets help. But until that happens, it's hard for me to have a ton a sympathy for someone who's unwilling to help themselves.
I lived in Toyon with Debi during her freshman year and would consider us friends that year. I saw her off to the World Championships (helped her get her stuff into a cab at 5am). We briefly reconnected in the 90s when she was at Northwestern Med School and I was at Kellogg - but she was just too busy to sustain any kind of contact.
I feel terrible that this has all happened to her and I hope she can get back on her feet, but at the same time I look at how much she had (and threw away) and wonder how this could have happened. It's gonna be tough for me to watch the show but maybe I'll feel more sympathetic afterwards.
UPDATE: So I watched the clips online and while I feel bad for her I can't be too sympathetic because she sees the problems she has but won't do anything about them. Looks like she is bipolar, but she doesn't seem to want to get help for it. She's living with an alcoholic with anger issues who has physically abused her and, bipolar or not, she won't get out. I hope she wakes up, gets out of that situation, and gets help. But until that happens, it's hard for me to have a ton a sympathy for someone who's unwilling to help themselves.