American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem • Hacker News Board

Re: American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem

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Post by 0xcde4c3db » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 3:33 AM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #169

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you are feeling suicidal, there are many resources available. There are resources readily available to stop you killing yourself right now . After that the prospects for help tend to dry up pretty quickly until you boil down to the next crisis. Hotlines are a fine thing to have and to promote, but they're not nearly enough.

Well I'm sorry for trying to help others out. What are good resources then? Just HN comments criticizing others for not being up to some random's standards.

My point is that there largely aren't good resources for a lot of people. It's not a criticism of you personally; you're raising awareness of one part of the situation, and I'm raising awareness of a different part of the situation.

Re: American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem

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Post by Anthony-G » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 8:30 PM UTC

reflexive wrote: post #170

Phr0ztByte wrote: post #160

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Band popularity has a lot to do with marketing. If you are looking at the size of European countries they have just as many influential artists as the US. UK and Sweden in particular.

Can you recommend any Swedish acts? I thought of Junior Senior and Röyksopp but it turns out they're Danish and Norwegian.

There’s a Wikipedia page for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Sweden

Artists I particularly like are Robyn (pop), The Knife (electronic/“IDM”), Fever Ray (one half of The Knife), The Cardigans (pop), Lykke Li (indie pop), iamamiwhoami (experimental electronic) Opeth (death metal), Kleerup (electronic dance), Neneh Cherry (pop/hip-hop), José González (indie pop). Note: genres aren’t particularly useful but I thought some indication of what the artist is like is better than none.

If you like Röyksopp, I’d recommend checking out Kleerup, The Knife, iamamiwhoami, Lykke Li and Fever Ray.

Also, you may not know the name but you’ll be very familiar with the songs written and/or produced by Max Martin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Martin

Re: American Children Are Drowning in Self-Esteem

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Post by Anthony-G » Sat, Oct 29, 2016, 8:47 PM UTC

Balgair wrote: post #169

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you are feeling suicidal, there are many resources available. There are resources readily available to stop you killing yourself right now . After that the prospects for help tend to dry up pretty quickly until you boil down to the next crisis. Hotlines are a fine thing to have and to promote, but they're not nearly enough.

Well I'm sorry for trying to help others out. What are good resources then? Just HN comments criticizing others for not being up to some random's standards.

I upvoted your post as I found it interesting (albeit very disturbing). I interpreted 0xcde4c3db's comment as essentially agreeing with you – but also adding that suicide hotlines by themselves aren’t enough (similar to how, in the case of a physical health problem, applying First Aid keeps someone alive but in the longer-term, medical care is needed).