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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 months ago

    I wondered what the CDC was doing about it. In non-surprising news - pretty much nothing. It's a public health issue so they're not interested and they are counting on people to solve the problem. They did make a webpage though. Here's a tweet from September - emphasis mine.

    More than 49,000 people in the U.S. lost their lives to suicide in 2022.

    Learn 5 actions your community can take to lower suicide risk in a new CDC #VitalSigns report. bit.ly/4dY0PDc

    https://xcancel.com/CDCgov/status/1833898439517565092#m

    Here's the page.

    Suicide Risk Is Tied to Local Economic and Social Conditions | VitalSigns | CDC

    Rates are lower in counties with more health insurance, internet access, and income

    • MonsterRancher [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Guy with this profile picture saying "marxiam is not the answer" to the CDC tweet. The absolute dregs of life that float to the visible surface somehow.

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      • MonsterRancher [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        And then the other dipshits that think spotty lockdowns for like 6-ish --big ish here-- months is a trauma that will never be lifted. That's why they waited to end it like 2 years after the fact. Fuckin' idiots.

        • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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          2 months ago

          [CW COVID deaths]

          spoiler

          Yeah it was the lockdowns and not the vans of dead people killed by the disease that traumatised people

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          As someone with anxiety, the lockdowns meant nothing because it actually became easier to stay inside lmao

          "Lockdowns? Quarantine? Neat! Now I don't have to worry about my body going into fight mode anytime I think about going outside."

    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      but they didn't lose their lives, they ended their lives

      sounds a bit floofy when they say people "lost their lives" as if it's just something that just kinda happened to them

  • miz [any, any]
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    2 months ago

    As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotised by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.”

    This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.

    from https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/