The Trouble With Spikol: Is Suicide Preventable?

Responding to a New York Times magazine article.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• psychiatry
• suicide
• psychology
• firearms
• attempts
• spikol

[persevere67]

the threat of it has haunted me all of my life, you are very beautiful to me

[csmcmillion]

"If I had owned a firearm... I would not be here today" = post-industrial natural selection.

[kylexysbiggestfan]

I'm 15 and i suffer from depression. Its not because of anything chemically messed up in my brain but its because of the things that have happened to me in my life. For example, My mom cheated on my dad and had a kid with the man she cheated with. When my dad gets pissed at me he sais that if mom and him get a divorce its my fault. I finally decided to get help for depression and i'm now on medication. i thought things were getting better but now my dad has been diagnosed with cancer.

[kylexysbiggestfan]

I think God has helped you. You have lived with severe PTSD since you were 12 and you haven't killed yourself yet. I think he has made you a very tough person. He has helped you but you just haven't noticed. Maybe you have been praying that God will take away your PTSD. If thats what you have been praying for then maybe thats why he hasn't answered that prayer. God has a plan for all of us. He allows certain things to happen to us so he can use us for something.

[Latinlabel]

God can help you, and will if you ask. And if you don't ask and you see that He still helps you it is because someone else (Gf, family member, pastor) prayed for you and you received God's grace, mercy and love.

[Moeshinx]

i gaint 40 kilos in 6 months :S al i did whas eat eat and eat but im on a diet now and im taking alot less medication so i already lost 10 kilos and feeling alot better about myself couse gaining wait sucks really bad and very depressing

[Moeshinx]

Suicide is absoluty Preventable

in the past 2.5 years i tryd pils 3 times and got in the hospital after the first time not long after i tryt again nothing happend i thout i could die and got even more depresset not long after i drank alot realy alot and after some time i start cutting myself to the point i lost more than 1.5 liters of blood and where taken to the hospital and the next day i was in a psychiatric hospital for 8 months i got alot of medication also efexor and seroquel

[deemilieu]

sometimes it's not an 'illness', it's just 'life'...or one's reactions to it.  the older i get, the more i come to believe everyone goes through times when they are truly tortured. fortunately, for most coming out of it is relatively easy but for some, well, that's a hard thing to reconcile...how life can treat some people so unfairly.

[Mystery207]

Must be nice to be a elitist. Well shoes shape changed today for the fall season. I think you need to shop.

[akfuzero]

I think it is a fake thought process and I choose not to act on it. train your mind.