Posted by CaptainAmerica1967 on October 21, 2011, at 4:05:10
In reply to Re: opiates and major depression, posted by JohnLA on October 20, 2011, at 23:29:42
I read that suicide would become the second killer in the USA back in the early 2000's I believe, but just search; suicide, 2020, WHO (World Health Organization). I know it stunned me to hear this way back then too, but WHO has an excellent track record however they come up with stats either from increasing results of death records (they know the true results like a pathologist does unlike the public) or some other means. You never hear about suicides (My neighbor lost his job two years ago, wrapped himself up in bubble plastic so blood wouldn't get all over and put a pistol to his head and shot himself dead-It was not published and he was a well known realtor but the family didn't want the stigma-his son killed himself two weeks earlier and likewise wasn't published) like you hear about deaths from heart attacks or at least not as much /c suicides because of the shame like stigma assocaited with it. There were 100's and more military individuals who have commited suicide while serving in the Afganistan or Iraq War. They didn't publish it though, but I know that there were countless numbers of individuals who took their own life (most PTSD) but the stigma attached with suicide especially a MARINE cannot be published as it would make us look weak. Find a friend of a friend who has been fighting over seas on the front zone and they'll tell you the truth about suicides but it's hush hush around the public.
The brain is so complex and no one might ever truly know the exact mechanism or there could be several reasons or mechanisms for various psychiatric disorders as we do know that environment and genetics have a role and in other disease too like heart disease. In Japan, heart disease is low (low risk genetically, lots of omega 3 fatty acids from seafood, over half the country or a very high number of individuals take CoQ10 as physicians recommend it?), and then the Japanese comes to America and then they start suffering from heart disease. Why?
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