A long-time leader of the Kenosha chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and a frequent guest on Greg Berg’s Morning Show has said on numerous occasions that he and his wife got involved with the group because of the depression suffered by family members, including the couple’s two children.
Last week, Jack and Sue Rose’s son stopped in to tell his own story.
42 year-old Brody Rose, who’s employed as a graphic designer in the Washington area, said he’d grown up happy and well-adjusted alright, but things started to fall apart shortly after graduating from UW-Madison and leaving school without a solid life plan. "The happiness that I maybe took for granted was no longer there," Rose said. "I didn't really know what was going on," he said, adding that it was a scary time.
A close friend eventually steered him to get the help he needed—a process which he says is on-going.
Since then, Brody Rose has received a measure of fame as the “coaster doodler.” To help combat stress while commuting to work on the train, Brody, years ago, started to incorporate sketches of roller coasters into various images that caught his eye in the morning newspaper. He now has a collection of hundreds of intricate and creative drawings, some of which are on the internet.
Brody Rose is married and has two young children.
In addition to serving as co-president of the NAMI chapter in Kenosha, Jack Rose sits on the Kenosha City Council.
Rose tells WGTD that he hopes that his son's story will help others. Depression, he says, often times runs in families and can be triggered at any time by external factors, he says.
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