Discussion Suicide more prevalent than homicide in us, but most americans don't know it

[Just A NPC]

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uow-smp102918.php
"This research indicates that in the scope of violent death, the majority of U.S. adults don't know how people are dying," said Erin Morgan, lead author and doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at the UW School of Public Health.
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The results indicated that although suicide was more common than homicide in all 50 states, the majority of respondents did not identify it as such.


Maybe if people were aware of this there wouldn't be such a fucking stigma? What are your thoughts?

 

[Threads]

There's always going to be a stigma as long as there is profit to be made.

Burn the capitalist society to the fucking ground.

 

[Just A NPC]

There's always going to be a stigma as long as there is profit to be made.

Burn the capitalist society to the fucking ground.

I think the mental health help that is supposedly available around at least the US is a joke. I know anecdotal stories do not equate to anything more than that, but I think that your response is interesting and valid.

As a teenager I spent some time in mental hospitals, and they definitely only cared about money. I witnessed someone who was diagnosed with schizophrenia actually getting better. It was fascinating as hell to witness. Then insurance ran out. They kicked her out so fast even though she clearly explained I am getting better and can not leave yet. I don't know how her story ultimately ended, but I can see how people made a profit from her misery.

I did not consider profit when I first read the article. Now I am thinking about it. Thanks for giving me an interesting perspective.

 

[Circles]

I think the mental health help that is supposedly available around at least the US is a joke. I know anecdotal stories do not equate to anything more than that, but I think that your response is interesting and valid.

As a teenager I spent some time in mental hospitals, and they definitely only cared about money. I witnessed someone who was diagnosed with schizophrenia actually getting better. It was fascinating as hell to witness. Then insurance ran out. They kicked her out so fast even though she clearly explained I am getting better and can not leave yet. I don't know how her story ultimately ended, but I can see how people made a profit from her misery.

I did not consider profit when I first read the article. Now I am thinking about it. Thanks for giving me an interesting perspective.

In the region of my state there's very few mental health institutions left and have been closed down for property development. My mother is a nurse who has worked in the psychiatric unit for a decade and she has told me they only let in 10-20 people at best at a time. And guess what, now her building is closing down and there are essentially no more institutions in the entire metropolitan area and half of the entire state. Mental health care is already nonexistent as it is and now the rest are vanishing. Goddamn this country is so backwards especially for a first world country and one of the richest nation states the world has ever seen. And now the only things we are #1 at are the national debt and the number of incarcerated adults in prison. 'Merica.

 

[Roph]

I had no idea that suicides outpaced homicides. I thought for sure it would be the opposite.