Mainstream media actually reports lockdown suicide

[BluesRunTheGame]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-56513705

RIP Ross McCarthy. I wonder how many there have actually been.

 

[GreenTree]

Might not have been just lockdown. Who knows. Mental illness is fucking evil.
And the thing is mental health support doesn't work. Some people just want too die. I think it's a rip off. Likewise some peoples minds heal naturally without support. Creates jobs though and they do care. I just don't think they can lose really.

 

[EmbraceOfTheVoid]

I don't like them blaming it on lockdown because it's highly unlikely to be the main reason. It pushes the narrative that suicide is easily fixable when it isn't true. At that point you'll have moronic normies posting hashtags about suicide awareness and reaching out; it makes me want to vomit.

 

[GreenTree]

Yes and if I finally succeed before lockdown is over they better not blame it on that. Accept people are in pain and want to die.

 

[BluesRunTheGame]

I guess my take was that mental health has largely been ignored during the lockdowns apart from occasional naff platitudes on TV. Like, obviously there will have been a surge in suicides (and yes like this guy usually with pre-existing depression and other disorders) but they haven't been reported on, which is to my mind a disingenuous media take on the pandemic. I'm surprised even one has made the headlines tbh.

 

[bad luck]

I don't like them blaming it on lockdown because it's highly unlikely to be the main reason. It pushes the narrative that suicide is easily fixable when it isn't true. At that point you'll have moronic normies posting hashtags about suicide awareness and reaching out; it makes me want to vomit.

Well, I believe the opposite. The confinement is messing with the minds of healthy people. I have already read suicides of people who have gone bankrupt by not being able to maintain their business, various income from a bipolar friend. I see around me that people drink more alcohol. Even healthy people in my family are starting to get (slightly) depressed

 

[GarageKarate07]

The civilized world is all on "lockdown" and the world is still a horrible place. What does that tell us about what we are doing here? Lockdown has effected many people but the problems we have had for many years are what is killing us now. Lockdowns do cause extra isolation and that will kill many sad people just by itself. Another reason that places like this are good for sad people to vent and feel a connection. Once that connection is gone it's like a powder keg. Even normal people will get sad very fast if they feel alone.

I guess my take was that mental health has largely been ignored during the lockdowns apart from occasional naff platitudes on TV. Like, obviously there will have been a surge in suicides (and yes like this guy usually with pre-existing depression and other disorders) but they haven't been reported on, which is to my mind a disingenuous media take on the pandemic. I'm surprised even one has made the headlines tbh.

I agree with you there. It was all about the sickness and death counts and not about how it will make people feel. In this case, sad enough to go, wether it was a quick decision or a long thought out one.

 

[MyStateKilledMe]

I don't like them blaming it on lockdown because it's highly unlikely to be the main reason. It pushes the narrative that suicide is easily fixable when it isn't true. At that point you'll have moronic normies posting hashtags about suicide awareness and reaching out; it makes me want to vomit.

Hey, now! Lockdown CAN BE a cause of suicide. Just look at my name: I joined this site to learn to CTB specifically became my rotten liberal state had a lockdown lasting 2.5 months. Which all started with a lie of "2 weeks to flatten the curve". I drank alcohol by the buckets, I listened to happy music, I exercised, I ate comfort food; nothing helped! Social isolation nearly killed me, literally.

My will to live didn't return until I joined a radical pro-Trump right-wing group. They didn't believe in the sensationalist Covid lies (known as "prolefeed" in the book "1984"), and were still willing to socialize, dance, have fun, shake hands, hug, etc. No masks, no social distancing, just people being together as human nature dictates. My first party with them had me floating on cloud 9. I felt like I died and went to heaven, and that was before a woman there French-kissed me.

Ever since, that group became my social safety net. My of my friends are liberals, and didn't really want to hang out. But that group did, even when everyone else was panicking like Chicken Littles and staying home.

 

[GarageKarate07]

Hey, now! Lockdown CAN BE a cause of suicide. Just look at my name: I joined this site to learn to CTB specifically became my rotten liberal state had a lockdown lasting 2.5 months. Which all started with a lie of "2 weeks to flatten the curve". I drank alcohol by the buckets, I listened to happy music, I exercised, I ate comfort food; nothing helped! Social isolation nearly killed me, literally.

My will to live didn't return until I joined a radical pro-Trump right-wing group. They didn't believe in the sensationalist Covid lies (known as "prolefeed" in the book "1984"), and were still willing to socialize, dance, have fun, shake hands, hug, etc. No masks, no social distancing, just people being together as human nature dictates. My first party with them had me floating on cloud 9. I felt like I died and went to heaven, and that was before a woman there French-kissed me.

Ever since, that group became my social safety net. My of my friends are liberals, and didn't really want to hang out. But that group did, even when everyone else was panicking like Chicken Littles and staying home.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. I'm glad you found a place to feel connected. Not all of us have that.

 

[EmbraceOfTheVoid]

Well, I believe the opposite. The confinement is messing with the minds of healthy people. I have already read suicides of people who have gone bankrupt by not being able to maintain their business, various income from a bipolar friend. I see around me that people drink more alcohol. Even healthy people in my family are starting to get (slightly) depressed

Losing your livelihood and going bankrupt due to lockdown would push even me to suicide but the article was talking about a boy who supposedly ended his life because he couldn't see his friends. I find it hard to believe to be the main reason behind someones suicide and that there were other reasons not mentioned in the article. The problem I have with these articles is that they bring up problems that are fixable to an extent like money and friendships but never bring up people who are traumatized, disabled, ostracized, etc who killed themselves.

Those are much more complex problems that people find inconvenient to hear about and nobody actually wants to do anything about them so the mainstream media omits them entirely. Suicide is always intentionally portrayed with fixable problems with people who were good looking, had good families, and that their suicide was due to a one off event which leads to platitudes from normies like how "we're all in this together." Phrases like those unfortunately don't help a boy that gets beaten by their father at home.

 

[bad luck]

Losing your livelihood and going bankrupt due to lockdown would push even me to suicide but the article was talking about a boy who supposedly ended his life because he couldn't see his friends. I find it hard to believe to be the main reason behind someones suicide and that there were other reasons not mentioned in the article. The problem I have with these articles is that they bring up problems that are fixable to an extent like money and friendships but never bring up people who are traumatized, disabled, ostracized, etc who killed themselves.

Those are much more complex problems that people find inconvenient to hear about and nobody actually wants to do anything about them so the mainstream media omits them entirely. Suicide is always intentionally portrayed with fixable problems with people who were good looking, had good families, and that their suicide was due to a one off event which leads to platitudes from normies like how "we're all in this together." Phrases like those unfortunately don't help a boy that gets beaten by their father at home.

The politicians who make these laws have blood stained hands. A sanitary emergency sanitary measures are taken. Not political. Use mask and gel. Do not violate civil rights.

 

[Breadbfra]

Lockdown was deeply needed but we had a 30% rise in suicides and 150% rise in hospitalization after suicide attempts in youngsters. This is Italy, but the media is constantly hiding it.

 

[bad luck]

Lockdown was deeply needed but we had a 30% rise in suicides and 150% rise in hospitalization after suicide attempts in youngsters. This is Italy, but the media is constantly hiding it.

In Spain the same but I see a comparative grievance between countries. Spain took very tough measures. The media laugh at people. They talk about covid figures, then they said that there were only 4 cases of flu thanks to the use of a mask. Are you trying to tell me that the mask stopped the flu virus but not covid? Could it be that PCRs are failing because they work at 44 cycles, instead of less? Why is mortality only 0.21%? No, this is not about health, it is about economy.

 

[WornOutLife]

The lockdown is a blessing for some people and hell for some others!
As for me, it was a blessing because I only leave my apartment to get food and drinks and I can work without having to move my a$$ lol.
Still, I've been suicidal since 12 and didn't have neither an internet connection nor a phone so it's their fault either lol.

 

[bad luck]

The lockdown is a blessing for some people and hell for some others!
As for me, it was a blessing because I only leave my apartment to get food and drinks and I can work without having to move my a$$ lol.
Still, I've been suicidal since 12 and didn't have neither an internet connection nor a phone so it's their fault either lol.

At first it was fine for me, then they started making laws that contradicted others. I had some fines that I did not pay since they violated others of greater rank. Now, in Europe they are going to create a vaccination card, put a Star of David on my jacket, don't screw around.