Mental Health is a serious issue we should give more attention--> Three big personalities took the suicide route this week, is that ok?
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This week is turning out to be a tough week for some well known personalities and their family and friends. From the royal family to well known celebrities, the havoc of death by suicide is hitting the news painting an issue many continue to ignore, are we addressing mental health adequately?. Just in case you miss it, here is the breakdown:
Shock waves was sent throughout the Dutch Kingdom (Netherlands) as the youngest sister of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, Ines Zorreguieta was found dead in her apartment in Argentina. The Queen cancelled all engagement and flew over to Argentina to be with some of her family there, her younger sister has been suffering from depression and was actually seeking psychological help as reported by the Dutch media (Dutch broadcaster NOS). Sadly that came to late.
Fashion designer Kate Spade was found dead in her apartment on Tuesday is an apparent hanging in her New York apartment. A note was found near the body but the details was not released to public. Spade has been suffering with mental illness for some time according to her sister.
Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain was found dead in Strasbough, France in an apparent suicide case. Little is known whether he had any known struggle but its becoming increasing clear that he was a silent sufferer.
These are just some of the well known cases for this week, highlighting the growing problem. To put mental health into perspective it encompasses emotional, psychological and social well-being of an individual that allows them to function at a satisfactory level to life varying demands. Today we won't go into to much scientific details but rather bring some level of awareness that it is a serious problem. To add some reference to the above cases according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death in 24-34 age range, suicide among physicians ranges from 300-400 per year in the US, something I am quite familiar with, the statistic is even more sad among medical students.
So much of our society is "drug out" when they are facing difficult times compounding the problem in many cases. The perfect life in public is a complete mess in private, with everyone putting on a show. Our society has become so toxic that no one cares to say "Hi" or let someone know they are more than the next paycheck. I wonder how much people are suffering in silent, I wonder how much people wish they had someone to talk with or relate to. Many of us are caught in the Rat race, neglecting ourselves, our happiness, eating away ourselves daily as life challenges toss us to and fro.
Today lets recognize and appreciate each other, it one of the issue in many cases that don't require pills, I am a big fan of psycho-social therapy, mindfulness and love. If we know of anyone struggling, reach out, offer to take someone out or get involve in a cause but don't neglect yourself. My sympathies are with these families today and I hope we can really take the time to reach out and let someone know you are thinking about them and you are checking in on them. That's all it takes in many cases.............
It's very very sad. We need to change the underlying structure that's giving rise to all this... life is increasingly becoming "too hard" to deal with. We're not able to reasonably keep up with what we are "expected" to keep up with, to live life. We have SO many "points of input" to keep up with that we have no time left over to just sit and connect with each other on a human level. And there are probably people who'd read that sentence and say "Yeah, but there's an app for that!" not realizing that — by their very statement — they are confirming the problem.
I remember growing up (I'm 57) how dinner on the weekends was often a 3-hour affair of just slowly eating and talking to each other. Many people hear that now and say "Ain't got time for that!"
Really? What are you making time for? Working? Trying to work an app that will make your time usage better?
Resteeming...
Very well articulated.... There is a lot of soul searching needed, especially for those at the policy level, I wonder what our society would be in 10 years... The current programming isn't helping out, the best medical students can do after weeks preparing for exams is visit a bar and get wasted, that's the trend... Most young people are taking on unprecedented debt to get BSc degree, and school administrators are making these students life miserable, there comes a point when all the burden boils over, what happens to the man/woman who took over 400K loan to do a professional program and can't be gainfully employed or the teenage boy/ girl who develops a relationship on the phone and realize they can't function being next to each other..... The present system is set up now, family time is no longer possible, there is so much demand, granny/ grandpa can't pass on valuable lesson, mommy or daddy cannot recognize that the child needs their attention because they so caught up with work and meeting payment.... These things are building up, psychologist are readily trained to give benzo and bunch of social drugs as I term them, we now give a drug to a child to pay attention for 10 minutes, its turning into a big joke, its the symptoms of society boiling over
Interestingly, today also commemorates the sixty-fourth anniversary of the death by suicide of the British Mathematician Alan Turing. ¿A Syndrome around these dates of the year?
Yeah! in these times of consolidated high tech automation, obvious & ubiquitous AI presence, disruptive blockchain technologies and applied science to robotics... ¿Mental Health? ..Really?
¿What are we thinking?
Thanks for the history lesson, that video is another level mental health right there, I would say that's another level adrenaline definitely not normal lol
I was thinking exactly the same thing just now to be honest. Something is clearly going wrong at the moment with a lot of people, and I honestly feel a shitload of people are extremely lonely in these times of technology.
So many people are getting more introvert by the day, with nobody to pull them out
A lot of people caught in their bubble including me, I think the mass media programming has part to play in it and the unrealistic lifestyle portray on social media aint really helping, we all show the happy and proud moments and not the sad ones....
Lots of people are fighting their biggest battles in their head, if you are defeated up there, there ain't much medicine that can deal with that
Thanks for bringing this up, it’s something we need to talk about.
I think, we are more “connected” but more lonely.
I feel, we are increasing the number of ways we connect, but loosing the ability to communicate. I feel civil discourse is a rare thing.
I like the comments here, they are multifaceted, just like this problem.
But this is a good start, I hope you can keep the discussion going.
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Wow, so much technology, so much loneliness, so much pain.
When the pain of living makes death look like a viable solution.
Thanks for your post and making us think about this.