Re: Chilling reading
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:28 pm
Officer Dibble wrote:
> "Suicide is a major public health problem and accounts for 1.5%
> of the total cost of disease to world society," said Jose
> Bertolote, mental health specialist at the WHO.”
>
>
> Was a bit put out by the tone of the article – there was an
> undercurrent, an agenda, a received wisdom that people who take
> their own lives are mentally ill. This may be true in many
> instances, but certainly not all. Many people kill themselves
> because they find the life they have intolerable. Maybe the
> gods have DNA have played a particularly cruel joke on them –
> maybe they are particularly unattractive, inadequate and/or
> stupid, so much so that they cannot have self respect and take
> part in the social intercourse most of us take for granted -
> Imagine the mental aguish. You see a fabulous, gorgeous, girl,
> you want her, but you know you could never, ever, get a girl
> like that (or any girl) because you are a small, ugly, moron.
> If you are not blessed with the tools to compete a reasonable
> level in our society, be it social or economic, you're going to
> have a pretty miserable time. Some people in those situations
> decide that they are simply not going to stand for it any
> longer, and they bail out. They are not imaging they have
> problems; they do, and consequently, they are not mentally ill.
Living in a bad enviroment with serious external pressure is going to make a person seriously depressed
The trigger that turns these seriously depressed individuals into committing suicide is the chemical imbalance in the brain-FACT
>
> Then there are the people that have gotten themselves into a
> tangle. Maybe gotten into irredeemable debt, murdered someone
> (for whatever reason) or maybe they are being bullied or
> tormented. These people are not imaging these problems – they
> are real, they do have them, which can mean that life will be
> pretty unpleasant from then on. They choose not to stick around
> and face them. Killing oneself before one can be sent to
> Strangeways for 30 years seems an entirely rational and
> understandable course of action in my book.
> Of course what we see here is the middleclass, socialist/BBC
> agenda – they don’t want to face the fact that some people are
> so intrinsically crap that they themselves decide there is no
> point in entering the rat race. They don’t want to face the
> fact some people who fall at one of life’s (metaphorical)
> hurdles and injures themselves, will be in so much pain that
> they decide put themselves out of their own misery.
>
> Officer Dibble
> "Suicide is a major public health problem and accounts for 1.5%
> of the total cost of disease to world society," said Jose
> Bertolote, mental health specialist at the WHO.”
>
>
> Was a bit put out by the tone of the article – there was an
> undercurrent, an agenda, a received wisdom that people who take
> their own lives are mentally ill. This may be true in many
> instances, but certainly not all. Many people kill themselves
> because they find the life they have intolerable. Maybe the
> gods have DNA have played a particularly cruel joke on them –
> maybe they are particularly unattractive, inadequate and/or
> stupid, so much so that they cannot have self respect and take
> part in the social intercourse most of us take for granted -
> Imagine the mental aguish. You see a fabulous, gorgeous, girl,
> you want her, but you know you could never, ever, get a girl
> like that (or any girl) because you are a small, ugly, moron.
> If you are not blessed with the tools to compete a reasonable
> level in our society, be it social or economic, you're going to
> have a pretty miserable time. Some people in those situations
> decide that they are simply not going to stand for it any
> longer, and they bail out. They are not imaging they have
> problems; they do, and consequently, they are not mentally ill.
Living in a bad enviroment with serious external pressure is going to make a person seriously depressed
The trigger that turns these seriously depressed individuals into committing suicide is the chemical imbalance in the brain-FACT
>
> Then there are the people that have gotten themselves into a
> tangle. Maybe gotten into irredeemable debt, murdered someone
> (for whatever reason) or maybe they are being bullied or
> tormented. These people are not imaging these problems – they
> are real, they do have them, which can mean that life will be
> pretty unpleasant from then on. They choose not to stick around
> and face them. Killing oneself before one can be sent to
> Strangeways for 30 years seems an entirely rational and
> understandable course of action in my book.
> Of course what we see here is the middleclass, socialist/BBC
> agenda – they don’t want to face the fact that some people are
> so intrinsically crap that they themselves decide there is no
> point in entering the rat race. They don’t want to face the
> fact some people who fall at one of life’s (metaphorical)
> hurdles and injures themselves, will be in so much pain that
> they decide put themselves out of their own misery.
>
> Officer Dibble