RE: Defeat depression with progress
Hope and faith may help prevent depression (in my case), but I knew another person whom had depression, and despite being more intelligent and successful than I, and despite my preaches of hope in progress, he eventually killed himself.
He even blamed me for it, which showed me that he knew that suicide is bad and hinted me that he wanted to live, which proved to be a false hint eventually, despite my fuzzy logical derivations.
Progress gives me hope and my faith is in truth and the revelations of truth.
Progress is the discovery of truth and methods for improvement.
I believe that diseases that are currently not curable will be curable and it gives me hope.
I believe that technologically impossible feats will be possible and it gives me hope.
But my experience taught me that it does not work for everyone.
For nutritional causes and cures of depression, search Eric Berg's channel.
No one can blame anyone else for decisions to end their own life in my opinion. As an adult if someone makes that decision then they are solely responsible for that choice. My opinion on suicidal depression is if it gets that bad there are professionals that should be contacted. If you're a friend to a person who expresses thoughts of suicide you should contact professionals who can handle that kind of situation. At the very minimum you should nag your friend and tell them to call the help lines or seek professional help.
In many cases people can be helped. My blog post is more about the non-life threatening mild forms of depression which most people are familiar with. I have no personal experience with suicidal tendencies as I've never felt that way so any advice I can give on that topic would be useless. Only professions can help there in my opinion.
I did not report him, because I feared that he and others will be afraid to talk to me due to framing him (damage to my real life reputation)
I also assumed that he was not going to do it, due to what I wrote before and due to other reasons.
IDNK if he blamed me officially in a suicide letter, but he explicitly told me that I make him want to die.
My guess for the reason why is my antitheist preaches, but I never hinted or claimed that he should die.
I told him the opposite and he was one of a few that I wanted to live.
I knew another person before him that had depression, but he was aware of it, took medications, and today he is an examplery brain dead zombie with will to live.
In his case it is still better than death, I guess.
Due to this other person, I assumed that the one whom killed himself would not do it either, but I did told him once that if he is serious about it, he should go to a psychiatrist, despite that I knew about psychiatry quite the same of what I know about it now, that it is legalized drug trade, policy of enslavement and care instead of cure.
In a few acute cases even this is better than death.
I think in most cases psychiatry is over prescribed but in situations where lives are at stake then whatever can help should be tried. Some people do need help from professionals and other people need to learn how to help themselves without any medication.
The problem with psychiatry is it diagnoses everyone as needing medication even when they aren't suicidal, or aren't a danger to others. In my opinion the standard should be a lot higher than it is but like you said it's always better to be alive in treatment than to be dead. If the options are dire then work within that context.
As far as reputation goes, if a friend is threatening suicide it's actually good for my reputation if I report them or tell them to seek help. It's worse for my reputation if I don't tell them to seek help so my standard response for anyone who tells me about thoughts of suicide is first to tell them to seek help and if they keep expressing those thoughts to me then to take steps to report them.
Why? It's because I'm not qualified to help a person who has that problem and because of that the best outcome is if they seek a professional. Professionals also from a legal liability point of view are covered if they do commit suicide.
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