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I smell bullshit. After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year. Thankfully one can’t get a gun easil

I smell bullshit. After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year. Thankfully one can’t get a gun easily in Europe, otherwise I won’t probably be writing this... and I haven’t experienced even an appetite loss, not saying about social etc. After SSRIs I’m not that anymore, but I’m still ready to give up at first chance, just I know at worst I lose a job and a house. But death.. for good or bad, it doesn’t work that way.

andrewmcwatters 8y ago
I don't mean to dismiss your experience, but this is such a super-tunnel vision point of view there's nothing here to gain. Your sample-size is one person, and for some reason you bring up gun control laws, which changes the course of discussion. Of course many people with depression don't just die of being depressed. That's not what this article is describing. Depression isn't severe trauma. Severe trauma can cause depression, and what's explained here, is that it can cause death by psychosomatic cause.
- aaron695 8y ago
  Most gun deaths are sucide. It's very high for men (I assume OP is male cause of this) USA is very unusual that gun sucides are only double other guns deaths. Europe is much different. You could argue removing sucide by gun just means sucide moves to other methods but I'd say the data doesn't show this and OP thinks this as well for them. No one is strongly arguing this here, it was just an off the cuff point. Their story is one of the better comments here. ( The article is bullshit as others have pointed out, it's possible dangerous as it almost is saying depression and death is a choice )
coldtea 8y ago
>After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year. Well, what one consciously expresses is not always a match for their inner state. Second, it's another thing to say "oh god, take me now" than to consider yourself as nearing death. One is a kind of negative wish, while the other is how you view yourself objectively to be going to. Besides, biological processes are not physical laws. They are statistical phenomena, and people can differ. It's what happens in the aggregate and for most that's examined. In that sense, a counter-example is not enough to take down the phenomenon. In any case, glad it worked out for you.
galvarez800 8y ago
You are drawing a general conclusion based on a single anecdote.

andrewmcwatters 8y ago

I don't mean to dismiss your experience, but this is such a super-tunnel vision point of view there's nothing here to gain. Your sample-size is one person, and for some reason you bring up gun control laws, which changes the course of discussion. Of course many people with depression don't just die of being depressed. That's not what this article is describing. Depression isn't severe trauma. Severe trauma can cause depression, and what's explained here, is that it can cause death by psychosomatic cause.

aaron695 8y ago
Most gun deaths are sucide. It's very high for men (I assume OP is male cause of this) USA is very unusual that gun sucides are only double other guns deaths. Europe is much different. You could argue removing sucide by gun just means sucide moves to other methods but I'd say the data doesn't show this and OP thinks this as well for them. No one is strongly arguing this here, it was just an off the cuff point. Their story is one of the better comments here. ( The article is bullshit as others have pointed out, it's possible dangerous as it almost is saying depression and death is a choice )

coldtea 8y ago

>After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year. Well, what one consciously expresses is not always a match for their inner state. Second, it's another thing to say "oh god, take me now" than to consider yourself as nearing death. One is a kind of negative wish, while the other is how you view yourself objectively to be going to. Besides, biological processes are not physical laws. They are statistical phenomena, and people can differ. It's what happens in the aggregate and for most that's examined. In that sense, a counter-example is not enough to take down the phenomenon. In any case, glad it worked out for you.

galvarez800 8y ago

You are drawing a general conclusion based on a single anecdote.