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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree the tone of her post is weird in that it makes it seem like her suicide attempt is not that big of a deal and that everything is totally fine now, just over a week later. However, depression is a strange disease. It makes people act in strange ways. She obviously has a lot of issues to sort out and I think the tone of her post is likely a reflection of the way the depression is affecting her thinking. Whatever it is, it's sad and she shouldn't be under attack at this very vulnerable time in her life, no matter how "strange" or "inappropriate" others may find her post.[/quote]

It's entirely possible that she's faking this whole thing.  Why is this an unacceptable thing to even suggest?  It's not unheard of, in severely personality disordered individuals.  If true it would make her a true POS.  [/quote]

And the timing with two celebrity high-profile suicides this week.

It rings odd to me.  I let feels too soon. “Hey—-I swallowed a bottle of pills and booze yesterday, had my stomach pumped and just wanted to let you know.”

Suicide attempts should be taken much more serious and any therapist worth her weight in gold would tell her to keep her ass off social media until she fixes herself.

Maybe it’s living online that is part of her problem.

There [/quote]

I don’t know this woman, but I know that hundreds of people in the US tried to commit suicide these last two weeks. Hundreds more seriously contemplated it. The only way to combat this plague is to drag it out into the sunlight and start discussing it. If people feel like they will just be labeled attention whores, they won’t tell a friend or family member that they’ve made a plan or just swallowed the pills.[/quote]

False dichotomy.  There is a chasm between coming forward to a family member or friend (or therapist/suicide prevention hotline) and blasting it all over your public blog, of which there are many readers, most of whom you do not know, and perhaps many of which know your kids.  Huge difference and rather disingenuous of you to make it about "getting help" vs being an attention whore.[/quote]

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