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Suicide Is Not an Act of Cowardice
Craig Bryan, a University of Texas psychologist and suicide expert who recently left the air force, told Time magazine that the military finds itself in a catch-22: “We train our warriors to use controlled violence and aggression, to suppress strong emotional reactions in the face of adversity, to tolerate physical and emotional pain, and to overco
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One of the essential aspects of depression is the sense that you will always be mired in this misery, that nothing can or will change. It’s what makes suicide so seductive as the only visible exit from the prison of the present.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
One of the essential aspects of depression is the sense that you will always be mired in this misery, that nothing can or will change. It’s what makes suicide so seductive as the only visible exit from the prison of the present. There’s a public equivalent to private depression, a sense that the nation or the society rather than the individual is s
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one of the most damaging of all psychological problems: depression and the closely related disorder of suicide. Failure to connect with others in meaningful ways can have deadly consequences.
Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance
One of the essential aspects of depression is the sense that you will always be mired in this misery, that nothing can or will change. It’s what makes suicide so seductive as the only visible exit from the prison of the present. There’s a public equivalent to private depression, a sense that the nation or the society rather than the individual is s
... See moreRebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
the greater and faster the downward mobility, the more likely it is to trigger suicide’.