Suicide
#21
I think it is a personal matter and choice how you live your life or perhaps how and when you leave the building. Something important to put in the mix is what the others you leave will feel and what type of mess you leave behind should you choose death .
its personal and i think most everyone has considered it sometime. perhaps there is an individual reason behind each death by suicide as well.
its personal and i think most everyone has considered it sometime. perhaps there is an individual reason behind each death by suicide as well.
#22
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Every day there is a new group of people noted as having increasing risk of suicide, the list keeps growing. In past weeks we heard about doctors in certain communities resorting to suicide, it is thought that it is related to them being overworked with high patient loads in communities with few doctors. So many different reasons for causes of suicide, you have to think something else is going on in society - too many hormones in the food and water supply ?
#24
Every day there is a new group of people noted as having increasing risk of suicide, the list keeps growing. In past weeks we heard about doctors in certain communities resorting to suicide, it is thought that it is related to them being overworked with high patient loads in communities with few doctors. So many different reasons for causes of suicide, you have to think something else is going on in society - too many hormones in the food and water supply ?
In the young especially, bullying has taken on a whole new level with social media. people have 1000's of "Friends" online that get to see them being bullied online and feel like the whole world is laughing at them.
With so much dependence on social media, the ability to deal with social conflict and just face to face communication is going away
Social media also provide an easier way to hide and bully others or just be a dick to others in general. Even on these types of forums EVERYTHING is an argument sometimes.
Sedentery lifestyle (huge issue with our society, some numbers say people on average are sedentery or sleeping up to 21 hours per day) means more time online and less time out around real people.
Sedentery lifestyle causes worse health, which is linked to worsened mental health as well (our bodies are big refineries of a sort, garbage in, garbage out)
The foods we eat (And yes, probably the stuff we feed the animals and plants we eat as mentioned) are not the best most times, again affecting health.
Violence is pumped into our heads on a daily basis. When 24 hour news came along 30-40 years ago, we got to see war somewhere in the world on a regular basis, including images that are a bit gruesome at times. Video games have reflected this and further de-sensitize young people who sit in their room and play to escape their other issues (and they are terrible at talking to others and attempting to resolve such issues). Pumping endless streams of violence into our heads (movies, news, games, wherever) cannot be good for us over time.
We put a HUGE dependence on drugs to resolve every issue, including psychotropic drugs meant to help depression and other disorders such as ADHD that have potential side effects that are the opposite of what the drugs are supposed to do.
Economics are such that it is almost impossible for many families to have a parent at home and so both have to work, meaning less parent/child time.
The increase in violence (mix all the effects above and violence is likely to increase) means the people dealing with said violence (teachers, emergency personnel, etc) deal with more and more of this with increasingly younger victims and perpetrators, putting more mental stress there.
And I am sure there is plenty more to add. And the effects of all the above seem to make us less able to handle the turmoil in society, which also grows due to the same factors above. All in all it is not all that surprising that this problem is a growing one.
It is frightening and sad to say the least. Society as a whole needs to take a sharp look at ourselves and figure something out soon. It is hard to pinpoint the one big thing that is causing it all and that is usually because there are many compounding factors.
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zeroptzero (09-20-2019)
#25
There is some relation between the population of your community and the suicide rate. It may surprise you.
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/...-suicide/6197/
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2013/...-suicide/6197/
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zeroptzero (09-20-2019)
#26
^ wow the more you investigate this the more complicated it really becomes. Many many factors, many many groups affected, makes it a very daunting task to tackle for anyone in the mental health world.
I recall growing up in my younger years they used to say that dentists had the highest rate of suicide of any profession, I never heard any reasoning on that, it was just one of the well known stats 20+ years ago. I'm not up on current statistics but I would assume that other professions have taken over the top spots.
I recall growing up in my younger years they used to say that dentists had the highest rate of suicide of any profession, I never heard any reasoning on that, it was just one of the well known stats 20+ years ago. I'm not up on current statistics but I would assume that other professions have taken over the top spots.
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