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Note, also, the prerequisite: For the police to talk them down they must have been on the brink but not jumped for some time, otherwise the police wouldn't be
by LorenPechtel 5y ago
Note, also, the prerequisite: For the police to talk them down they must have been on the brink but not jumped for some time, otherwise the police wouldn't be there to talk them down.
I don't think the ones that are talked down are a remotely representative sample.
- y6edgy5r 5y agoThrowaway for obvious reasons; i tried to kill myself and ended up in the icu for 3 days. i stood up because i didn't want to live any longer, took 3 bottles of anti depressants, and laid down to die. Luckily my girlfriend found me and cashed 911. I was depressed, i was taking anti depressants, but i wouldn't say the description in the original quote was accurate for my case, i didn't have a slow declinr into it. It was like a switch flipped in my head and i wanted to die, but now even when life is the hardest i wouldn't consider suicide, so it kinda was like a suicide vaccine for me.
- IntrepidWorm 5y agoRight- any studies on the mindset of those who attempt suicide and survive, or those who attempt but are talked down by responders or family/friends are obviously tainted by survivorship bias.