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Another young man in town hung himself
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 554051" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, I still don't agree. When you are in a depressive funk you care little about coping skills...if it is debilitating enough all you want is for the pain to go away. Many people with a strong support system still commit suicide. And I don't think there is any increase, just as I am not sure there is more autism than there used to be. As we continue having a social network and learn more about certain problems, we hear more about things that were once hidden. Remember when we all thought battered women didn't happen much? If you're as old as me, you remember. Of course, that was not true. It's just that battered women stayed with their abusers because divorce was so shameful and hard to go through that women stayed quiet and put up with it.</p><p></p><p>The more we learn, the more we see. But in my opinion that does not mean that there has been any increase. We just have more knowledge of what goes on in the world. Heck, in my great-grandmother's day, the only way people could hear a message was by radio. There would be no real way of knowing how many people died of suicide (not to mention the cause was often hidden). Everything is more out in the open now. And as time goes on, things will even be MORE out in the open. And everyone will lament over those "good old days." Today is our grandchildren's "good old days" lol. But they really aren't. They are just days, filled with the good, the bad, and the ugly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 554051, member: 1550"] Well, I still don't agree. When you are in a depressive funk you care little about coping skills...if it is debilitating enough all you want is for the pain to go away. Many people with a strong support system still commit suicide. And I don't think there is any increase, just as I am not sure there is more autism than there used to be. As we continue having a social network and learn more about certain problems, we hear more about things that were once hidden. Remember when we all thought battered women didn't happen much? If you're as old as me, you remember. Of course, that was not true. It's just that battered women stayed with their abusers because divorce was so shameful and hard to go through that women stayed quiet and put up with it. The more we learn, the more we see. But in my opinion that does not mean that there has been any increase. We just have more knowledge of what goes on in the world. Heck, in my great-grandmother's day, the only way people could hear a message was by radio. There would be no real way of knowing how many people died of suicide (not to mention the cause was often hidden). Everything is more out in the open now. And as time goes on, things will even be MORE out in the open. And everyone will lament over those "good old days." Today is our grandchildren's "good old days" lol. But they really aren't. They are just days, filled with the good, the bad, and the ugly. [/QUOTE]
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