Tag Archives: suicide
Keep Your Well Intended Advice to Yourself Unless . . .
Regarding Mental Health Keep your well intended advice to yourself unless you believe the person you are talking to. Otherwise, your advice is not well intended at all. A woman I met a few days ago said she could wake … Continue reading
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Tagged eat, end of days, medicine, mental health, psychiatrist, shock therapy, suicide, talk therapy
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My First Suicide Attempt
What went wrong was like seeing gravity stop working. I had read dozens of stories of carbon monoxide poisoning working in fairly short order. It didn’t happen. Far from it. I am baffled and perplexed and discouraged. I wish you … Continue reading
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Tagged aided suicide, attempted suicide, mental health, nightmares, PTSD, sleep problems, suicide, terminally ill
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This is How Everyone Dies
A recent article in the Sun (external link) describes how women celebrities and influencers on Instagram are sometimes stalked by lunatics who cause harm. One woman was recently killed. Celebrity stalking didn’t begin with Instagram, of course, I’m sure Helen … Continue reading
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Tagged killing yourself, medicine, mental health, suicide, threats bullies
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I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded by A.E. Housman
No one has ever written better about depression, futility, and ending it all than A.E. Housman. (internal link) All of us question the Meaning of Life at times and wonder whether it is worth going on. Housman’s heartbroken or doomed … Continue reading
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Tagged ae housman, depression, Poetry, suicide
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Repost: You Better Drive. I Think There’s Something Wrong With Me
“You Better Drive. I Think There is Something Wrong With Me” This quote is from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson Reposted with bonus material on March 17, 2021 Updated November 29, 2020 I’ve railed before against the … Continue reading
Reflections on A Black December
NB: This is from three years ago. The original post is here (internal link) Reflections on a Black December With my violent nightmares having subsided for now, I wanted to write about how concerned I am with the rising suicide … Continue reading
Writing Contest! Yay! What Would Your Suicide Note Say?
What would your suicide note say if you were going to kill yourself? Or, what would your favorite fictional or real life person say if they were going to kill themselves? What would Kermit the Frog say if he were … Continue reading
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Tagged contest, suicide, suicide note, suicide prevention, writing contest
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Intermountain and Humana Will Rejoice
As of my last nightmare, just now, I am dropping any thoughts of getting my insurance to pay for my mental health treatments. There is no time to wait. I need rest. I need peace. I can’t be frightened in … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic insomnia, health care, humana, insomnia, intermountain, mental health, nightmares, psychiatrist, psychologists, suicide
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No Fixes
No Fixes 3:42 AM Discouraging talk with my family practitioner yesterday. Although he wouldn’t admit it in so many words, no cure or fix exists for my chronic anxiety, nightmares, or insomnia. There never has been. All the medications and … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, chronic conditions, hoelessness, hope, insomnia, mental health, nightmares, suicide
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Reflections on a Black December
With my violent nightmares having subsided, I wanted to write about how concerned I am with the rising suicide rate in America. I don’t see hope for its decline as medicine is practiced today,. In mid-December my psychiatrist recommended that … Continue reading
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Tagged mental health, modern medicine, suicide, suicide rate
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