self-medicating

GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- Tom Leynes once was a carpenter, a popular man with an apartment just a block off the beach, "a happy guy."

Today Leynes lives in a fly-covered pup tent. He's bearded and haggard, each day wearing the same camouflage green shorts and thousand-yard stare. He's trying to fend off a deepening depression with cans of beer and Valium, and on some days the 49-year-old man is barely coherent.

I don't have the heart to give this guy a WTFF award, but Jesus H. If you're depressed, here's a thought: stop taking freakin' depressants.