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kyburgBoy, did this get in under the radar.
Charles Curie, who heads the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said suicides in the United States run at about 80 a day or more than 29,000 a year, three for each two homicides.
I'm not very pleased with the lead paragraph, though:
Suicides outnumber homicides in the United States, and some 90 percent of people who kill themselves suffer from a diagnosable and preventable problem such as depression, a top mental health official said Monday.
One - depression is fatal if you kill yourself, 100% of the time. D'oh.
Two - Diagnosable, yes. Treatable - questionable. I've never seen anything work for everyone 100% of the time. That includes all the drugs. And the therapies. Situational depression does not have an organic cause, and if your life is sucking hind tit, there isn't anything they can give you for it. Honest.
Chronic illness often leads to situational depression - and no, the illness does not cause depression as an organic side-effect. The SSRIs won't touch it, and everything else just turns you off so you feel nothing at all. About anything.
They'll ask you if you have faith when you get to these places. Why? There's nothing else to try.
But in truth, this is where more belief systems begin to resemble each other. It is a truly human condition we all struggle with, and the problems are always larger than ourselves. Belief systems emphasize community, fellowship and introspection. You ever heard of group therapy? Walk into a holy place - and see how many people are there.
Also, I believe that you get out of your mental health what you put into it - don't stay tied to people who abuse you. Be what you wish to be - and don't settle for being miserable. Money is made in all kinds of ways - caring for oneself is always a pleasure. So you're not the king of the world - you took care of business today, and that's what really matters, right?
We seem to miss teaching how to accept ourselves. They call it self-love, but it ain't about mental masturbation.
I dunno. The word "enough" keeps echoing in my head. I don't have to be famous. What I have is enough. A ton of attention makes me nervous, so it's just as well I'm not pretty - and can disappear in a crowd quickly. I enjoy being a gadfly too much.
Poor folks. I really came to the conclusion I never wanted to die some time ago - I just wanted to be happy.
More than murder. More than traffic accidents....
It's time I started writing about this, I think.
Charles Curie, who heads the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said suicides in the United States run at about 80 a day or more than 29,000 a year, three for each two homicides.
I'm not very pleased with the lead paragraph, though:
Suicides outnumber homicides in the United States, and some 90 percent of people who kill themselves suffer from a diagnosable and preventable problem such as depression, a top mental health official said Monday.
One - depression is fatal if you kill yourself, 100% of the time. D'oh.
Two - Diagnosable, yes. Treatable - questionable. I've never seen anything work for everyone 100% of the time. That includes all the drugs. And the therapies. Situational depression does not have an organic cause, and if your life is sucking hind tit, there isn't anything they can give you for it. Honest.
Chronic illness often leads to situational depression - and no, the illness does not cause depression as an organic side-effect. The SSRIs won't touch it, and everything else just turns you off so you feel nothing at all. About anything.
They'll ask you if you have faith when you get to these places. Why? There's nothing else to try.
But in truth, this is where more belief systems begin to resemble each other. It is a truly human condition we all struggle with, and the problems are always larger than ourselves. Belief systems emphasize community, fellowship and introspection. You ever heard of group therapy? Walk into a holy place - and see how many people are there.
Also, I believe that you get out of your mental health what you put into it - don't stay tied to people who abuse you. Be what you wish to be - and don't settle for being miserable. Money is made in all kinds of ways - caring for oneself is always a pleasure. So you're not the king of the world - you took care of business today, and that's what really matters, right?
We seem to miss teaching how to accept ourselves. They call it self-love, but it ain't about mental masturbation.
I dunno. The word "enough" keeps echoing in my head. I don't have to be famous. What I have is enough. A ton of attention makes me nervous, so it's just as well I'm not pretty - and can disappear in a crowd quickly. I enjoy being a gadfly too much.
Poor folks. I really came to the conclusion I never wanted to die some time ago - I just wanted to be happy.
More than murder. More than traffic accidents....
It's time I started writing about this, I think.
