Blackpill: I also expect that I will probably take my own life, one day. Don't know when, don't know how, but I've pretty much known this for more than a decade. I guess you can "hope" that it doesn't come to that, but sometimes life doesn't... Work, and mine hasn't.
Unlike this guy, however, I don't have a family. No one is relying on me. I don't have employees, or a business which needs me around. I'm a failure, which, in a sense fortunately, means that if I did go... The impact would be less than it could be.
But yeah, let's hope not yet. All I know, however, is that what they did to this man is evil, and I would much rather be dead, than be put through 30+ rounds of ECT, or "transcranial magnetic stimulation".
Literal torture. Literally killing your brain, because someone thinks that is "better" than being depressed. You wanna know how Carrie Fisher lost her memory? That.
Maybe you will not take your own life, things do change. I'm not in a great place either at the moment, but hopefully it will get better. However I'm not that far off, if I lose my job I'm probably calling quits.
If things work out for me I hope to be strong enough to help my kids and nephews if they ever get down on their luck. A strong family to support you is what most of us need.
Unless you have serious alcohol and drug problems, schizophrenia, and an extremely impulsive personality - no, you won't. The instinct to self-preservation is incredibly strong. I know!
It's your call. You need to find a reason to keep living, and I hope you do.
I agree 100% with your take on electroshock. It's barbaric, nearly as horrific as lobotomy, another psychological fetish that was contemporary with EST for a while until it was exposed as a method of control, a sort of non-lethal euthanasia that benefited those who would otherwise be forced to live with someone who goes around bothering people or is an embarrassment to the family.
Yes, lobotomies were performed that casually. I have no idea why EST is still being used.
I'll agree that ECT is pretty iffy. TMS seems to be a lot safer though, based on some research I've done. Though that safety can be very much compromised in the wrong hands and lead to some major issues.
Maybe I'm nuts, but I've been finding some odd comfort in the slim possibility that we'll discover a solid approach and implementation to human immortality within our lifetimes. And I'm not talking about the existential terror that is the idea of uploading your consciousness into a machine, but through keeping the body from decaying and degrading, regeneration, that kind of stuff.
That kind of lifespan with other tricks available would offer the potential for an incredible number of possibilities. And more possibilities means a greater chance of things panning out in a positive way someday.
(Elephant in the room, I'm pretty much an atheist since I see no fathomable way a person's consciousness could conceivably exist after death. And believe me, I've tried to tackle that question on a regular basis, only leading to the same conclusive answer.)
Blackpill: I also expect that I will probably take my own life, one day. Don't know when, don't know how, but I've pretty much known this for more than a decade. I guess you can "hope" that it doesn't come to that, but sometimes life doesn't... Work, and mine hasn't.
Unlike this guy, however, I don't have a family. No one is relying on me. I don't have employees, or a business which needs me around. I'm a failure, which, in a sense fortunately, means that if I did go... The impact would be less than it could be.
But yeah, let's hope not yet. All I know, however, is that what they did to this man is evil, and I would much rather be dead, than be put through 30+ rounds of ECT, or "transcranial magnetic stimulation".
Literal torture. Literally killing your brain, because someone thinks that is "better" than being depressed. You wanna know how Carrie Fisher lost her memory? That.
Fuck that absolute evil bullshit.
Maybe you will not take your own life, things do change. I'm not in a great place either at the moment, but hopefully it will get better. However I'm not that far off, if I lose my job I'm probably calling quits.
If things work out for me I hope to be strong enough to help my kids and nephews if they ever get down on their luck. A strong family to support you is what most of us need.
Unless you have serious alcohol and drug problems, schizophrenia, and an extremely impulsive personality - no, you won't. The instinct to self-preservation is incredibly strong. I know!
It's your call. You need to find a reason to keep living, and I hope you do.
I agree 100% with your take on electroshock. It's barbaric, nearly as horrific as lobotomy, another psychological fetish that was contemporary with EST for a while until it was exposed as a method of control, a sort of non-lethal euthanasia that benefited those who would otherwise be forced to live with someone who goes around bothering people or is an embarrassment to the family.
Yes, lobotomies were performed that casually. I have no idea why EST is still being used.
Depression can't make you do anything that YOU don't want to do.
Yeah things might suck, and some of the thoughts can suck even worse.
But death is one of the few things in this world that can't be unfucked.
So long as you are still alive, things can possibly change for the better.
I'll agree that ECT is pretty iffy. TMS seems to be a lot safer though, based on some research I've done. Though that safety can be very much compromised in the wrong hands and lead to some major issues.
Maybe I'm nuts, but I've been finding some odd comfort in the slim possibility that we'll discover a solid approach and implementation to human immortality within our lifetimes. And I'm not talking about the existential terror that is the idea of uploading your consciousness into a machine, but through keeping the body from decaying and degrading, regeneration, that kind of stuff.
That kind of lifespan with other tricks available would offer the potential for an incredible number of possibilities. And more possibilities means a greater chance of things panning out in a positive way someday.
(Elephant in the room, I'm pretty much an atheist since I see no fathomable way a person's consciousness could conceivably exist after death. And believe me, I've tried to tackle that question on a regular basis, only leading to the same conclusive answer.)