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This reminds me of http://www.google.com/search?q=+commit+suicide which returns a help message (generally a phone number to a suicide prevention service in your country).
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a reference to a meetup that points to a mail list: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Unfortunately there is no direct link to the message, but here is the pasted header, if someone is interested in looking for it in the archive: Forwarded message From: Mitch Altman Date: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Geeks & Depression meetup To:…
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From: Mitch Altman
Date: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Geeks & Depression meetup
To: NoiseBridge Discuss
Geeks & Depression meetup
Tuesday, 6-December, 7:30pm
No Starch Press, 38 Ringold Street, San Francisco, CA
94103
(near Civic Center BART Station)
Let's have a meetup where geeks can talk about depression
and suicide. You are not alone. Share your story, if you
like. Share a friend's story. Or just hang out and
listen. Let's make it OK to talk about these things so
that we don't feel so alone with our feelings of being
alone and depressed or suicidal.
This is not a support group -- none of us are trained
professionals, but we can get together in a safe,
confidential space to talk about depression and suicide
-- an important part of life for so many of us geeks.
Mitch.
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If you like literature, it might help to try to view your situation as the hero's journey.
Find some things that give you comfort, and just hang in there. For me, it was music that got me through the dark days.
Immerse yourself, escape for small amounts of time, and find things to sustain you -- mentally, emotionally, physically. Reach out to your family and/or friends. Just endure any way you can, and you will come out on the other side of this.
Both depression/suicide and dietary habits run in families and reoccur over multiple generations.
Low serum cholesterol has been shown to be a suicide risk factor. [1]
Get you cholesterol tested and try adding more good fats to your diet like oily cold-water fish (think salmon and sardines), butter, eggs (including the yolk!), and coconut milk/oil. You should aim for a low LDL and a high HDL number.
[1] http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolutionary-psychiatry/...
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2) exercise/sports.
3) take a break and go to hawaii or some place you like and have some fun with family and friends.
4) start dating. have fun.
5) if it becomes worse pls. seek professional help.
"When I'm in a manic phase, I feel as though I am capable of anything and everything. This can be an amazing feeling, but I sometimes get frustrated and angry with people. Ideas flow constantly and quickly, as if my brain is on fast-forward. Everything happening in the world has significance in my life. But when I'm depressed, it's as if I'm completely crushed and living in slow motion. I feel capable of nothing. " http://www.mind.org.uk/help/diagnoses_and_conditions/bipolar...
Wonderful thought and worthwhile effort. And I see that Facebook is also making similar efforts. I'm glad to see that. My meta-thought about this is how do you make this proactive instead of passive? If you don't visit raganwald or Facebook, how will you get any encouragement this Christmas season? I've often thought that some corners of the Internet could benefit from a virtual chaplain who could approach members of…
I don't think it's that easy to tell, especially not on the internet. A better question might be, how do you reach out to people suffering in silence and convince them it is okay to talk? (An anonymous online suicide hotline which doesn't report cases to the authorities might help, but I suspect it would be trolled.) What Facebook effort are you referring to?
I think one important thing for anyone who's struggling to remember is that however you're feeling, it's not permanent. It's temporary. It will change. It might feel like things are never going to get better, but they will. It might feel like you're never going to feel better, but you will. You just have to hold tight to that fact, and trust it, even if it seems impossible. Then, six months or a year or three years from now, you'll be so glad that you hung on.
I recently learned that a former student of mine committed suicide, and I think about him all the time. I wish I could have told him all this while he was alive.
Thanks again for this post.