My favorite comment this week is by Pam.
"I met J5 and spoke with them briefly when Michael was around 11/12. I was impressed with how soft spoken and well mannered they all were. Although I did not care for the "crotch grabbing" of later years, I think he was a phenomenal performer. He endeared himself to his fans and people he worked with and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for his charitable contributions. I think he was basically a gentle soul who was pushed too hard by his father. Lack of a real childhood, the abnormal life, drug addiction, and the loneliness that I guess most unique people suffer in some way resulted in a tormented self-destructive life. I am so sad that it all ended just when it looked like he was finding his way back to the public performing that he loved. I am sure God loves him. RIP Michael."
I know that childhood traumas and difficulties can lead to problems later in life. I know it first hand from my work with, and recovery from food addiction. So I have great compassion for Michael Jackson, and everyone who has gone through this.
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Monday July 6, 2009
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My dad and his family had sexual addictions. I had been abused and that lead to adult issues(lake of trust and self-esteem,to name a couple). My mother and dad divorced when I was ten, but then there were verbally/emotionally abusive step-dads. My mother was uneducated,naive, and unable to express her feelings. Of course she had to deal with her own emotional issues. She did pretty much stay in church, where thankfully seeds of God's Word were planted in my heart. It took years of painful experiences/trials, but my faith in my Heavenly Father grew through it all. I have been able to forgive my abusers,by God's grace. Mom and dad have passed away,but my relationship with the PERFECT FATHER continues to grow.
I don't know of any perfect life. Like Donia, above, I find remarkable growth through a relationship with Christ. If we feed any vice or addiction, the human body just cries 'more'. Feed it less and it demands less. I am addicted to obsessive thought and what a dilly to get rid of. I think I like to worry! I've come a long long way in this (just before kicking off) and I actually am happy now alot of the time. But, give me something to chew on and I'm off and running. Connecting this to childhood abuse, I used to be what doctors called 'paranoid' till I discovered it was all true - and very subtle, so subtle, it took fifty years to learn what my family was doing to me. I'm rid of them now, and find life to be much more rewarding and happy! I laugh every day, alot.
I was surprized to learn that MJ had a problem with anorexia. That may have contributed to his early demise.
MJ's passing is so sad. Even his own family, (Jermaine, Janet) tried to do an intervention with him, and he shut them both out. I agree with Pam's comment, that we loved Michael, but there's no way to know how tortured a person is. He seemed to have everything, but with a terrible drug addiction to pain killers and doctors around him willing to enable that addiction, it seemed he had no hope.
I feel almost guilty that more people didn't try to help, even his fans, like myself, and realize that Michael needed help. Instead, everyone just saw him as this "freak" or the "King of Pop", not accessible (not that he was). I liked what (I think it was) the Rev. Al Sharpton had to say about him at his Memorial, "It wasn't that Michael was weird. What he had to deal with was weird." Yeah, real weird. I couldn't deal with what he did. God Bless his soul. Amen.
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