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Eulogy for SonId like to thank you all for the leaping of support and condolences on the loss of my beautiful son Adam. My entire family appreciates it. This is my approbation to Adam Depression is a terrible unsoundness. Adam suffered so oftentimes with a disease that often goes unrecognized as very serious, or even as a disease, but is often fatal. Many mass who meet someone like Adam think all he needs is tough love - how wrong they are. To those who have neer had this disease, you cannot recall how frightening the demons are, how they take over your life, your every thought, your every action. There is no respite within the mind it is constantly on overdrive. Doctors have a couple of(prenominal) clues as to how to treat this. Lord knows how many doctors, tests, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers weve seen. Adam was hospitalized at least three times and lived in a residential sanative facility for seven months. He tried every anti-depressant drug available. He s pent another year in the military. The National Guard and ambience Force were brief respites from his torments. He excelled at both and became a bill poster soldier for the National Guard. He received an honorable discharge from the mental strain Force. But, in the long run, the military was ill-equipped to deal with the disease. Despite his disease Adam had passions, passions for hockey, for music, for his family. He worked out three days a workweek and studied to better himself. His sense of humor was infectious he saying the world differently and would always see the irony in life. On Monday driving to the airport after the Super Bowl he apothegm a gun shop and a hospital next-door. Once at a New Jersey Devils hockey game he seemed the but one shocked by the scoreboard message Devils welcome the Churches of NJ. Hed always discover the contradictions in life. But, he was always his own worst critic - never able to bask in his successes with the military, acquiring his GED, scoring a 3-point basket, getting a goal in hockey or fixing intricate computer problems. He emulated his brother, David, but disease got in the way. He love his sister, Deena, more than anything, but was rarely able to show it. They, in turn, love him dearly - a better brother and sister theres never been. For that matter, a better mother theres never been.