LINK Suicide, Stress, and Starting Over
What's behind the rise? What do we do?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.In a meloncholy but brilliant way, Camus nailed it
in "The myth of Sisyphus"
CreoleTango
Level 5
June 18, 2018
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True, but while every piece of lit. has its eternal truth, it is also time and culture bound. The modern Sisyphus is the industrial worker - in Europe at the time of Camus and in Bangladesh and Vietnam today.
Loss of hope to effect a change, being bombarded with continuous negative happenings , lost of true human contact ...reference to texting, emojis and surface communication .
My granddaughter was bullied my her boyfriend physically and emotionally ...he used FB, texting, Instagram to humiliate her the night she took her life. The lack of impulse control damages an entire generation .
Shazbott68
Level 5
June 17, 2018
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A combination of everything and anything can produce suicidal tendencies. There is no remedy or cure. The people serious about ending it don’t usually ask for help.
Katrina51
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June 16, 2018
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You're correct as far as an individual context. The article is more about the social context which creates higher incidents of individual cases in the relevant societies.
Personally I think it is over population stress. But that's at the root of almost all of our problems these days.
If you look at the population curve they provide as a reference and assume their extrapolation is correct we are currently an maximum rate of increase. What that means is that now, somehow, from somewhere, pressure exists to slow the rate of growth. Well, I think we all know what is likely to happen next and it isn't pretty because as a species we have ignored it. It doesn't have to be that way but it likely will be.
marmot84
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June 14, 2018
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Suicide has practically no effect on pop. growth.
@marmot84 It's far more than mere population pressure. If that were the case, the more densely populated countries would have a higher suicide rate. Not true. Holland is one of the more densely populated countries. Yet it's rate isn't high because of good social services. Our rate peaked after the 2008 Great Recession. The despair of poverty, war, are two important factors. Within that context, cultural factors also play a role.
Major breakdown in social services for one. Dismal job market no matter what the news says. Bad people running rampant and getting away with murder. Things look pretty hopeless in america rn unless you've got money.
OpposingOpposum
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June 14, 2018
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