loads? don't know if i could cope with that. in my daily routine, i cross 1 emo and each time i have to do my absolute best not to beat him into a pulp. i usually content myself by simply laughing in his face.Piggy Himmler said:
Suicide
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Well, they were probably genetically predisposed to dopamine sensitivity. I don't know enough about it to know how it comes to be, but it basically involves the expectation of rewards and sensitivity towards it.
Let's say you wake up today expecting a 5 from the world, and you suddenly won the lottery, an obvious 10. If you wake up tomorrow expecting a repeat performance, a 10, it obvious isn't likely to happen. Some people have better hormonal regulatory system than others, thus they can reset back to 5 the next day. Some people are more sensitive to outside influence in this regard, so they will be expecting a 10 for quite a while before they can reset themselves.
This type of sensitivity can really wreck havoc on someone's life if one combines it with certain home environments.
Due to popularity of pseudo psychology, a lot of patients are quickly labeled, judged, and promptly misdiagnosed. Words like depression, Prozac, ADHD are as plenty as tap water. Is that really helpful or useful? Misinterpretation is worse than not been able to understand it at all.
Psychology/Neuro-psychology/or whatever names you call it, is a difficult subject. After the genome, proteome, and physiome databases are established, maybe then we will have enough resources to create a psychome database. An actual empirical study of the cause and effect of the human psyche. Of course, that isn't going to happen any time soon.
In terms of suicide, it isn't as easy or simple as it seems. As a biological organism, our instinct/or biological determination to live is very strong. Of course, emotional flooding can cause the whole ecosystem of the brain to go haywire, but that usually isn't enough rationalization for someone to "off" him/herself. Actually, if someone digs deep enough, the underlying desire isn't so much escapism, it is more likely to be an desire for freedom. Only when someone "feels" he/she has nowhere to go, no-one to turn to, nothing else left, this will be an option for him/her. That is why near death experience is so powerful. The close and intimate struggle with death, and the subsequent revival of the will to live helps someone get past all the rationalizations he/she has given his/herself in order to live with less pain, then break through from it. A lot of older martial arts training methods involves something similar to this. (i.e. standing or sitting under the waterfall) Frankly, it isn't always easy to be honest with one's own self. We make white lies to live easier lives. But when it piles up, it will conflict with one's own sense of reality, and the end result can be disastrous.
In my own pov, no matter what from it takes, death, in the end, is just lonely. The desire to have others to acknowledge your existence, your worth is eternal. If you use the termination of your own existence as the last testament of yourself, in order for others to lament what could have been, is in the end, self defeating. And if there is a after life, you are still lonely.
Let's say you wake up today expecting a 5 from the world, and you suddenly won the lottery, an obvious 10. If you wake up tomorrow expecting a repeat performance, a 10, it obvious isn't likely to happen. Some people have better hormonal regulatory system than others, thus they can reset back to 5 the next day. Some people are more sensitive to outside influence in this regard, so they will be expecting a 10 for quite a while before they can reset themselves.
This type of sensitivity can really wreck havoc on someone's life if one combines it with certain home environments.
Due to popularity of pseudo psychology, a lot of patients are quickly labeled, judged, and promptly misdiagnosed. Words like depression, Prozac, ADHD are as plenty as tap water. Is that really helpful or useful? Misinterpretation is worse than not been able to understand it at all.
Psychology/Neuro-psychology/or whatever names you call it, is a difficult subject. After the genome, proteome, and physiome databases are established, maybe then we will have enough resources to create a psychome database. An actual empirical study of the cause and effect of the human psyche. Of course, that isn't going to happen any time soon.
In terms of suicide, it isn't as easy or simple as it seems. As a biological organism, our instinct/or biological determination to live is very strong. Of course, emotional flooding can cause the whole ecosystem of the brain to go haywire, but that usually isn't enough rationalization for someone to "off" him/herself. Actually, if someone digs deep enough, the underlying desire isn't so much escapism, it is more likely to be an desire for freedom. Only when someone "feels" he/she has nowhere to go, no-one to turn to, nothing else left, this will be an option for him/her. That is why near death experience is so powerful. The close and intimate struggle with death, and the subsequent revival of the will to live helps someone get past all the rationalizations he/she has given his/herself in order to live with less pain, then break through from it. A lot of older martial arts training methods involves something similar to this. (i.e. standing or sitting under the waterfall) Frankly, it isn't always easy to be honest with one's own self. We make white lies to live easier lives. But when it piles up, it will conflict with one's own sense of reality, and the end result can be disastrous.
In my own pov, no matter what from it takes, death, in the end, is just lonely. The desire to have others to acknowledge your existence, your worth is eternal. If you use the termination of your own existence as the last testament of yourself, in order for others to lament what could have been, is in the end, self defeating. And if there is a after life, you are still lonely.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
To be honest; I thought about suicide about 5 years ago 'cuz my life was looking pretty bleak, as was my future, which looked pretty non-existant.
Done a lot of thinking, yet I couldn't find a reason to actually commit suicide. Considdered a lot of different ways, and I can even imagine how it feels to actually die by most of them. (trust me, you don't want to know)
Does that make me unhuman?
Suicide is, imo, a stupid and cowardly thing to do.
They don't have the will to continue when the going gets hard.
When life rapes you hard in the arse then you grab life and rape it back in the arse even harder.
They don't have the ambition to climb the big mounting towards the top again.
If you fall off a horse, the best thing to do is to climb right back on it.
That's one way to get rid of it.
Or if the kid wasn't born yet; abortion.
To be honest; I thought about suicide about 5 years ago 'cuz my life was looking pretty bleak, as was my future, which looked pretty non-existant.
Done a lot of thinking, yet I couldn't find a reason to actually commit suicide. Considdered a lot of different ways, and I can even imagine how it feels to actually die by most of them. (trust me, you don't want to know)
I don't have any compassion to speak of.
Does that make me unhuman?
Suicide is, imo, a stupid and cowardly thing to do.
They don't have the will to continue when the going gets hard.
When life rapes you hard in the arse then you grab life and rape it back in the arse even harder.
They don't have the ambition to climb the big mounting towards the top again.
If you fall off a horse, the best thing to do is to climb right back on it.
Put the kid up for adoption?
That's one way to get rid of it.
Or if the kid wasn't born yet; abortion.
SkynetV4
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Put the kid up for adoption?
That's one way to get rid of it.
Or if the kid wasn't born yet; abortion.[/quote]
In Panama its not very common to do that. Orphanages over here are reserved for kids whose parents had no resources and had to put them for adoption. The kid's father comes from a wealthy family and his parents (paternal grandparents) are paying for his education and together with the maternal grandparents are raising the childe (intentional miss-spelling). The kid is developing severe personality problems because of the neglect. I fear he may end up despising his mother and loathing his father. For certain people, indifference hurts more than outright hatred.
A good point that seems prevalent from this thread is the fact that modern schools develop people's intellect but not their character. I know that the school's duty is not to raise children: Teachers are no substitutes for parents. Whom do students spend more time with, teachers or parents? Perhaps a different approach to pedagogy would be to increase the importance given to personal development rather than just academic development. A complaint that I had is that after I finished my high school I had some knowledge yet I didn't know how to live life. I couldn't even ask for a cab, I was THAT introverted, yet I managed to use a powerful influence to change that: my large (IRL) cojones. It is sad to see young students develop into goths, furries and LARPers.