WESLEY CREWS

Free Thinker • 2/6/1977 to 10/27/2020

Wesley was passionate about helping others. He was challenged by health issues throughout his life, but was 43-years-old when he passed away from injuries following a car accident. Doctors had expected him not to even live until age 15. He was far too head-strong and determined to accept that fate..

“His life was a wild ride and we just hung onto his coattails,” said his mother, Cassie.

Wesley spent his entire life battling severe hemophilia, but his brush with medical complications did not end there. When he was 3 years old, he was given a transfusion of blood tainted with HIV, and it went undetected for nearly seven years. He was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986. His HIV was undetectable for the last 25 years of his life.

The 1980s, of course, was a notoriously cruel era for people living with AIDS.

Despite the risks, he courageously became the first heterosexual person in Texas to admit publicly to having AIDS. At age 14 he made the decision to be open about it saying, “It’s not my fault, and I want to send a message to others who are struggling with this to let them know it’s not their fault either.” Wesley was not one who enjoyed the spotlight, but accepted that Disney wanted to do a story on him. Although it was stressful, he knew it was a way to get his story out there. He spent 14 years traveling to NIH in the DC area as the recipient of clinical trials for his HIV. He had to be carried for his first trip at age 10. While there he met many other people struggling with mental anxiety and depression over dealing with their own health issues.

In the years since, Wesley managed to live a far longer and healthier life than anticipated, as he kept his AIDS diagnosis and hemophilia under control. His activism extended to the causes of mental health awareness and animal welfare. To further the former goal, he started a support group called the Anger & Depression Management of Allen, which he started via Twitter and immediately saw an enrollment of 63 people. He trained his beautiful dog Zema to be a service dog, and she was certified to be taken to mental health centers. Wherever they went she never failed to open the door for Wesley to bring joy to people.

He himself went through severe anger and depression over the health challenges he faced, but devoted his personal will to overcome it. He studied deeply and broadly and developed a love for learning. He studied multiple languages, music, religion, politics, philosophy, and in the end developed the methods shared on this site hoping it will help others.

The week before his death, he told his mom, “I’m happier than I’ve ever been. I feel like I’m helping people.”Wesley was a great teacher and leader. All children who met him adored him and dogs listened to him. He had a kind soul and they knew it. He believed we can control and change our thoughts, instead of leaving our brains on auto-pilot. He gives clear instructions how to do this with the goal of overcoming our own depression. In return, all he wants is for those who benefit from this program to share it with others. Please freely use any information found here to spread his program.We, his family, are making his studied methods available. They are his words, and his success story.Wes & Cassie Crews, Michael & Melissa Crews, Jennifer & Casey Stricklin

Favorite Quotes

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

~ Galileo Galilei

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

~ Marcus Aurelius

“Reason is the divine governor of man’s life; it is the very voice of god.”

~ Benjamin Whichcote

“Thought is what makes humans human … It’s the luminous spark of reason that grants us lordship over the animals, endows us with cell phones, and offers hope, even in our darkest hours, that our species will somehow calculate the way forward to a brighter tomorrow.”

~ Bruno Maddox

“Men may be divided into two classes, according to the use they make of reason. Some men employ reason, or, as it is more commonly called, SENSE, to defend error by argument; others employ it, to discover and distinguish truth: the power, therefore, which we call SENSE, may exist without its use; and it is only valuable, in proportion as the mind is candid, dispassionate, impartial, and unprejudiced.”

~ Fulke Greville

“I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and, and rational argument.”

~ Barack Obama

“I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and, and rational argument.”

~ Barack Obama

“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

“The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

“The true principle which ought to be substituted in the room of law, is that of reason exercising an uncontrolled jurisdiction upon the circumstances of the case”

~ William Godwin

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

~ Jonathan Swift

“Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.”

~ Honoré de Balzac

“The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.”

~ Tacitus, Annals

“The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.”

~ Peter Kropotkin

“The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.”

~ Leo Tolstoy

“The law,” “it puts rigid immobility in the place of progressive development,” “it seeks to confirm permanently the customs that are advantageous to the ruling minority.”

~ Peter Kropotkin

“Our pets represent the greatest of humanity-The best of ourselves . . .
I love ‘em all!”

~ Wesley Crews

“More than anything I want to share what I have learned about overcoming the challenges of severe depression . . .it is going to help so many people!”

~ Wesley Crews

“Believe in life, (life works) have faith in life, protect life, and love life!”

~ Wesley Crews

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