Is Suicide Preventable?
POSSIBLY … IF WE FOCUS ON THE “WHY” By Liz Gunn || I know this has been writteYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
POSSIBLY … IF WE FOCUS ON THE “WHY” By Liz Gunn || I know this has been writteYou must Subscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
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Make the punishment the death penalty
I always laughed about the “illegality” of suicide. Perhaps their estate should be fined as well.
Kill their family.
You want to know why? If you ever experienced Seasonal Affective Disorder you realize the problem is an imbalance of neurotransmitters. Humans have only mapped 1/3 of all estimated neurotransmitters in the brain. Depression is a neurotransmitter imbalance. Can depression be psychosomatic? Yes. Stresses from life not properly addressed often leads neurotransmitter imbalances leading to depression, chaotic behavior, and even suicide. Lack of money, a career gone bye, old age can create unbelievable stress leading to depression resulting in suicide was Robin’s fall. His lifetime substance abuse exacerbated his neurotransmitter imbalances to a point of depletion of or permanent uptake blockages for neurotransmitters. We call that brain damage. Big Pharm does not have the drugs to cure all mental illness. Some drugs block receptors, some drugs open receptors often with mixed results patient to patient.
good info, Thomas. I’ve always thought it was so strange that one major side effect of a lot of anti-depressants is “thoughts of suicide”. Thanks for the reply.
Now we know why the use of alcohol is forbidden with the use of psychotropic medications. Alcohol blocks receptors. I worked for a Neuropsychologist at Dorn VA back in the day. He worked on finding associative learning centers in the human brain using albino rabbits. My assistance was credited. He is published.
Is it preventable, Yes and No. Yes if you want to do something like institutionalize the person and have him watched every second. No, because if a person really wants to end it all they will succeed.
Even when a person has support from family and friends, and is receiving treatment, suicides and attempts can occur. Ether way the family is not responsible for their decision.
Often attempts can be triggered by changes in life, even positive changes that one is enthusiastic about can cause stress; illness, births, deaths, new job, unemployment, retirement, divorce or marriage.
People in the medical profession are much more (successful) at suicide than others. Safely store guns and medications in the home or if possible remove them from the home.
Guilt is not helpful in discouraging suicide. Of course let the person know you love them and would miss them but telling them you would be angry encourages guilt for suicide feelings which deepens depression and discourages them from openly discussing it.
Finally, suicide is not an unforgivable sin. This belief just deepens guilt, self loathing and depression. It also causes unnecessary pain to the family.
Romans 8:
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I agree, 100%. Thanks for your reply!
I really enjoyed reading your essay – hopefully thoughtful persons like yourself will help to ease that stigma.
So glad you enjoyed it. I hope so, too!
Liz: Thank you for one of the most intelligent posts I’ve read on this site. I just hope Grand Tango reads it and can absorb it.
Thanks for reading!
you call yourself a critical thinker but all you do is follow the fake mainstream media and just rubber stamp the perspective they have already chosen for you. fashionista, food snob? you take suicide advice from someone who killed themself? LMFAO! FAKE MODERN MEDICINE WILL NEVER CURE “mental illness” by giving people drugs and listening to liar fraud pharma-pimp psychiatrists. and an even worse path to try to decode all the lies and misdirection is taking your cues from news media stories on hollywood celebrties. why peoplecommit suicde:its very simple: instead of learning the truth of real spirituality which unfolds itself as wisdom unveilng the meaning of life, the reality of what g od really is, and the techniques and how to unlock deeper levels of awareness regarding the true realityvia metaphysical, mystical and occult knowledge; instead, the liar media- one of whose jobs its is to pimp for the pharmaceutical industry and the for-profit medical-insurance cartel hoax- promotes, endlessly false paradigms whichleads sheep right to the slaughter. the only reason anyone gets sick, physically or mentally is because they don’t understand that your mind creates your own reality, but if you have a mind cluttered wih intentionally created false paradigms (created by the media, fake religion and fake science/medicine) and if you don’t understand the rules that govern the false reality of this material world (known as “maya” glamour, illusion)—and your mind always can perceive to the very end of the infinite and back to your own ego-driven personality— but with all the false paradigms, that ability to see to the end and back becomes completely skewed, and all those false paradigms become magnified exponentially—AND THAT IS THE REAL SOURCE OF MENTAL ILLNESSS. because peopl are not given the basic tools to understand and transcend this false reality- and instead of having the capacity, available to every human to access true divine knowledgewisdomundertsanding- people are fed fake religion,fake medicine, fake science, spiritualyexploited by systems created to spirituallyENSLAVE- (exoterically all religions are based in truth but have been perverted and corrupted into systems that perpetuate false knowledge and foster control via ignorance through dogma and theology which the aim is political control). i’m sorry for you, but you will never be a “criticalthinker” locked into your false ego/persona=mask. real truth only will come from resetting your mind, wiping away all false paradigms, and discovering the systemsof ancient wisdom. unfortunately most people are content wth wallowing in their egos which always leads to physical and mental illness.
It sounds like you have more experience with mental illness than I do for sure. Sincerely hope you he the help you need. (And for the record, there is no “advice” about suicidde. As stated it was an analogy that I found to be helpful). Best of luck to you.
Mushrooms, or LSD?
Make free drugs available for suiciders… euphoria inducing drugs… all they want.