Official Mental Health Thread

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

except when it takes too long or doesn't work

Suicide is all or nothing. Obviously nobody regrets it.

You may regret starting an attempt but not finishing one and if it ain’t finished it ain’t a suicide yet.

[Lucem Ferre]

What if you do technically die but they find you fast enough to bring you back?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Maybe for early stage alcoholism.
I set 100 days as my first major goal and even made a bit of a big deal about it when it arrived. Day 101 was terrible. Worse I'd had in a while.

For sure. The only thing sobriety guarantees is you wont be drunk or high anymore. It’s not a happy ticket. But alcoholic drinking or alcohol abuse or abusing any drug is a 99% chance of being a ticket to despair. Sobriety improves your odds of being able to work things out and solves one problem with 100% certainty. Sobriety cures your drug abuse problem. Not all the problems you made for yourself on the way but it does stop your current drug abuse problem which for almost every drug abuser is a huge step in the right direction. And it has a very good chance of letting some sunshine in.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

What if you do technically die but they find you fast enough to bring you back?

I hate when people say oh I was dead. No you weren’t.

[Lucem Ferre]

Mario Sunshine. Elph should sneak a T.V. and Gamecube into work and play Mario Sunshine all day while he gets paid.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I hate when people say oh I was dead. No you weren’t.

They're just repeating what the doctor says.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

They're just repeating what the doctor says.

Yeah. I don’t like it though. I like when people include important words like “almost”

I also like when scientist say things “approaching” infinity

Like if a black hole’s gravitational pull was “infinite” the entire universe would be sucked up into it already

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Yeah. I don’t like it though. I like when people include important words like “almost”

I also like when scientist say things “approaching” infinity

Like if a black hole’s gravitational pull was “infinite” the entire universe would be sucked up into it already

I know a guy who's friend hung himself and they caught him before he died but unfortunately he had gone too long with out oxygen in his brain and suffered irreversible brain damage that left him paralyzed so they ended up pulling the plug anyways.

Now he's fun little anecdote I get to share.

Anyways, I guess people just assume you're dead when your heart stops but that's not really true, is it?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I know a guy who's friend hung himself and they caught him before he died but unfortunately he had gone too long with out oxygen in his brain and suffered irreversible brain damage that left him paralyzed so they ended up pulling the plug anyways.

Now he's fun little anecdote I get to share.

Anyways, I guess people just assume you're dead when your heart stops but that's not really true, is it?

We might want to move to a different thread if we’re going to get into it but you’re right that’s not really true and accurately pinpointing the moment of death and even defining it has admittedly become much more difficult. It’s a huge subject and a fun one to talk about. The differences between alive and dead and living and non-living and all that. But no one comes back from the dead. Anything more on it and let’s go to bitch box or your day or one of the conversational threads.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by elphenor

too real

though I was thinking maybe we could up this trauma bonding to a suicide pact now that we're on the subject

Do you know how embarrassing it would be to be the only one who went through with it and now Frownland and OH are cracking jokes about you dying alone anyway?