gunmenjim's comments

Talking to a Suicidal Person

14 Feb 2009 05:45 PM

great advice. I would rather some one joke with me about my suicide attempts rather than tell me to cheer up. I would rather someone tell me about the things going on in there life that make them happy and be arround people that are laughing and happy. Its better to a little cold than to sympathetic to. at least with some of us.

More on Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

14 Feb 2009 04:15 PM

you might be paralized and afraid before the ECT actually happens, but my understanding is that a grand mal seizure means the brain can't process pain of fear. But yea, a lot of times depressed people usually have short term memory problems to begin with. Who needs more of that?

Suicide: What Do You Think about It?

14 Feb 2009 03:29 PM

Went trrough 4 yrs of off and on sevear depression as a teenager. Later in life felt what it was like to have all the skin burned of one leg with lots of 3rd degree. had an inflamed gallbladder removed, numerous abcessed teeth that couldn't be fixed faster than 24hrs. I have faith in morphine and novacane. that kind of pain is very selfish.. for anyone!

I have no faith at 48 yrs I could last two weeks with the sevear depression I felt as a teenager. I could not carry out suicide then because of what it would do to my mom. but I learned two things for sure. I'm no longer afraid of physical pain. And I would never judge someone who died of suicide. A huge percentage of the population lives and dies without ever knowing what real pain combined with time is really like. sevear depression is a very goulish kind of hell, I have nothing to compare it to.

selfishness is expecting someone to continue living in hell when thev'e been treated for years and keep going back to that state.

Chocolate may make your depression worse!

14 Feb 2009 03:17 PM

frist they try to take our whiskey, then our guns...now chocolate.???