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By: Bangkok Post: On-Line suicide spark Thai concern over web-cam « Center for Morality & Ethics News Study

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:16:30 +0000

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By: Självmord på internet – radiodokumentär | Wemind

Självmord på internet – radiodokumentär | Wemind — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:48:30 +0000

[...] BBC har nu en radiodokumentär om den komplexa kommunikationen mellan suicidala personer i chatrum. Mind Hacks, som tipsar om programmet, skriver såhär: “Bortsett från att programmet är baserat på [...]

By: Pacquiao Margarito

Pacquiao Margarito — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:30:34 +0000

Being in the suicidal state is really a damn one. Am thankful with my families who stayed with me and never let me fall into it. It is a matter of understanding the consequences and the effects. Closed family ties really counts.

By: talesofacrazypsychmajor

talesofacrazypsychmajor — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:05:26 +0000

I’ve spent some time in a pro-suicide chat room. I don’t feel anyone was preying on me or taking advantage.
There are a lot of support site online that are not pro-suicide and those can be great. But sometimes when feeling really really down they stop being helpful. There’s a point where you loose the support and everyone switches to “go to the hospital now”. It make it so I have to censor myself even in an anonymous forum, because people get so caught up with the suicide issue they miss the pain.

In the pro-suicide chat I’ve visited specific methods can’t be discussed in the chat though the chat is closely associated with a list of methods. Being able to talk about suicide and not worry about people freaking out about it helps a lot.

In therapy where theoretically a person should be able to talk about anything there’s a line about how much a person can talk about suicide before the therapist takes action. Hospitalizations are basically expensive babysitting. It creates a new problem through the disruption of my life. What I really need is a person to deal with the full extent of the problem and help me get through it. Unfortunately I have to censor myself in therapy to avoid disruptive reactions. That’s why resources like these pro suicide groups can be very helpful. They are one of the only few places to talk freely about something that needs to be spoken about.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:57:35 +0000

Well if the “Golden Gate” dismissives won’t help, maybe your own CMHT can…

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/5028_lack_of_care_led_to_mans_suicide

Note, the same pyschiatrist here…

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dqGKztqmJWIJ:archive.thisislancashire.co.uk/2003/2/11/567581.html+dr+julian+mason+dismissive&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

Psychiatry doesn’t understand experiences. It just worries about middle-class house-prices…

By: » Suicide Chatrooms Fachschaft Cognitive Science

» Suicide Chatrooms Fachschaft Cognitive Science — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:29:17 +0000

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By: djbaxter

djbaxter — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:06:19 +0000

“Despite the programme being a carefully researched and nuanced exploration of the issues, let me just note that it is sold on a stupid premise, namely ‘Is the internet encouraging vulnerable people to kill themselves?’

People in passing cars have apparently been known to shout ‘jump!’ to suicidal people on the Golden Gate Bridge but you would never see an article entitled ‘Is the transport system encouraging vulnerable people to kill themselves?’ ”

You’repremise is wrong, for a start, making the “traffic” comment irrelevant and sensationalist.

No one is claiming that “the internet is encouraging people to kill themselves”. Indeed, there are numerous sites, as you know, that work very hard to do the opposite.

But have you actually vistied and taken a careful look at what goes on in pro-suicide forum communities? or pro-anorexia forum communisties? What happens there is not just encouragement of life-threatening behavior. It is normalization of that behavior, normalization with the element of competition.

If you have taken a personal look at these sites, look again. They are dangerous, in a very insidious way, and they prey upon vulnerable people.