Cousins reportedly in mental health unit07:48 AEDT Sat Jan 14 2012
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Fairfax radio quotes a West Australian newspaper reporter as saying the drug-addicted former AFL star was taken by ambulance to the suburban mental health unit on Friday.

The 33-year-old was admitted on Monday to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in the city, but was on Friday afternoon transferred to the Joondalup Mental Health Care Unit.

Fairfax says Cousins had apparently been displaying paranoid behaviour while being treated after hitting his head in a fall.

Cousins was one of the most decorated West Coast Eagles players, winning the 2005 Brownlow Medal and playing in their 2006 premiership side before the club sacked him in late 2007 because of his drug addiction.

He was suspended for 12 months by the AFL for bringing the game into disrepute before ending his playing career with the Richmond Tigers in 2010.

He welcomed his first child, Bobby Ernest Cousins, with partner Maylea Tinecheff in September.

It is understood Cousins was committed to the hospital's psychiatric unit for his own safety, The West Australian newspaper reported.

The paper says Cousins was taken by ambulance under a police escort to the Joondalup Health Campus mental health unit on Friday after a prolonged psychosis related to his battle with drug addiction.

Doctors treating Cousins, committed the 33-year-old after he showed no sign of improvement following more than four days in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.




how tragic is this... we have two fine young men Mathew Newton..and Cousins total wrecks through drugs.. I just hope this is highlighted! as painful as it will be for their families.. but this need to be out there to show the uselessness and the real damage drugs can cause..we highlight their careers and tend to hide this

it needs to be out there I beleive

adelcrow wrote on Jan 14^th, 2012 at 8:04am:




do you think it should be out there though adel???..like I do..both these young men have a huge talent..whether drugs helped that talent we will never know.. but we do know it has assisted their present situation.. complete break down..from which there may be no return.

these are celebrities and we hear about them what about all the others that are dying just the same.

my sons partners younger brother is in jail..his mind has gone by the sound of things.. his mum has visited him for 4 years and seen no improvement at all he barely speaks..hes 30 he has one more year and then WHAT...how m any other like that out there????

Mental health is very difficult for some families to deal with. There is an attitude that it does not happen to us. It is a pity as many young people with mental health problems fall into drugs and this only compounds the problem for them. I have seen this in my own family but even getting on the straight and narrow for many years and building a successful career and family did not help when the next bout of illness arrived. No drugs this time but just the same psychotic behaviour.  It is so heart breaking to my Aunty who feels helpless.

cods wrote on Jan 14^th, 2012 at 9:52am:


This was my cousin and she was behaving unpredictably as a teenager but no drugs, that came later when at uni when she totally flipped. Some was pressure but no doubt the pot was a push factor. That was 15 years ago now and then last year it started again but no drugs this time. Mental health problems are in my family we have a "mad one" in every generation so luckily we were aware of the issue.
Studies have shown that if you have a mental health problem pot can trigger a psychotic episode. The study was done in Melbourne and showed mental health patients with drug problems had more complications with their condition than those that did not use drugs. Wish i could find the link it was good reading.

cods wrote on Jan 14^th, 2012 at 7:54am:




Demons are REAL spirit creatures.

But nobody, these days, believes such 'faerie tales'.

The use of psychotropic drugs 'open up' human beings, to the influence of demons.

But people who hate the idea of the existence of God, will never concede that psychotropic drugs can be a cause of demon possession.



Dictionary;
psychotropic = = relating to or denoting drugs that affect a person’s mental state.





Yadda - who gets 'high' on the influence of good spirit beings [i.e. angels].

corporate_whitey wrote on Jan 14^th, 2012 at 8:36pm:

Hey, Ben, not all rightards think you're a dropkick!

Most of 'em understand the pressure of neverending pressure and crack it!

THE DISMAL SCIENCE BREEDS SOME NASTY TRYHARDS!!

Atleast you showed people a few moves!!

Fair enough, I'm reffering to rightards who only vote Liberal 'cos their potential financial future dictates it's simply the way such cards ought to be played... i.e. they are leftys caught in a rightard family!

 

This is the sad recourse when you mix too much money, drugs and alcohol with someone with a low IQ like Ben Cousins.

These footy players and other sports people like them are paid too much money for what they do, which is kick a ball around a paddock.  They need to start paying what they are really worth, $100 a match.

Would have helped if he was more concerned about his newborn than obsessed with being a gangster in the underworld.