Mental Health

[Manc]

Let's have it.

[Mike]

Baz will clear everything up

[randomlegend]

God, let's not.

[Pepe]

Baz will clear everything up

:D

[Dquincy]

Let's have it.
Everything OK? This is a safe space.

[Yevrah]

I put all of my views in the MHA/FA thread a while back, but the tldr is.

There are actual mental health issues that are at best seen as being on a spectrum, or at worst conflated with things like stress and burn out. This is being done so chancers can make money and the internet can do whatever it does when it's pretending to care.

[Manc]

Everything OK? This is a safe space.

I'm not brave enough.

[Giggles]

I put all of my views in the MHA/FA thread a while back, but the tldr is.

There are actual mental health issues that are at best seen as being on a spectrum, or at worst conflated with things like stress and burn out. This is being done so chancers can make money and the internet can do whatever it does when it's pretending to care.

This is completely bang on.

[Dquincy]

I'm not brave enough.

I think you are. Plus you're not Yev, so it'll probably be a nice calm discussion.

[Jimmy Floyd]

As I keep telling you, heads have gone. They've been going for a while, but the pandemic has accelerated it x10. The information age is what's done it. Human heads haven't yet evolved to be able to deal with this sort of constant onslaught.

There's a difference between mental illness, and heads going.

[Yevrah]

As I keep telling you, heads have gone. They've been going for a while, but the pandemic has accelerated it x10. The information age is what's done it. Human heads haven't yet evolved to be able to deal with this sort of constant onslaught.

There's a difference between mental illness, and heads going.

Self harm was going up well before the pandemic came along, but your point about the information age is a very interesting one.

[Pepe]

I thought that self-harm was down during the pandemic.

[randomlegend]

I thought that self-harm was down during the pandemic.

It definitely isn't in kids.

[Dquincy]

I've masterbated more.

[Shindig]

SCIENCE finds suicide rates to be unchanged in pandemic. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00087-9/fulltext) Although it's early data.

[randomlegend]

And self-harm =/= suicide. Most people are actually quite bad at killing themselves even if they really intend to.

[Magic]

SCIENCE finds suicide rates to be unchanged in pandemic. (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00087-9/fulltext) Although it's early data.

The most bizarre post on here this year.

[Spikey M]

It's not even the most bizarre post in the last 10 minutes. :cab:

[Pepe]

Is TTH 'social media'? If so, we might need to nuke the place.

[Kikó]

And self-harm =/= suicide. Most people are actually quite bad at killing themselves even if they really intend to.

Case in point magic with covid.

[Lewis]

I read once that the male suicide rate is so much higher than women because, whilst they don't necessarily try to kill themselves in much greater numbers, geezers being generally more competent than women means that they tend to get it done properly instead of just cutting themselves a bit or not taking enough pills.

[randomlegend]

That's sort of true. They just tend to choose more violent methods which are more likely to kill them, like going in front of trains or shooting themselves. Even if people take what would be considered extremely risky overdoses (which they genuinely believe will kill them) they are likely to survive.

I've had a patient who took over 200 various tablets (with some pretty nasty shit in there) and was absolutely fine after a couple of days.

[Shindig]

The fat lass I knew was too heavy for her noose.

[Manc]

Knew?

[Pepe]

She fell to her death.

[Shindig]

Haven't seen her in over a decade. She's probably still with us.

[Baz]

My honest opinion of people who “struggle with their mental health” is stop being soft, but that’s easy for me to say because I’m not soft I’ve never “struggled with my mental health.”

[phonics]

Mine wasn't going great and then lockdown absoultely buried me in drug addiction and depression. Good times.

[Offshore Toon]

I've always thought if you had to pick a method it has to be jumping. It'd be one hell of a ride and surely painless.

[randomlegend]

I've always thought if you had to pick a method it has to be jumping. It'd be one hell of a ride and surely painless.

I think quite a lot of people don't jump from high enough and end up living.

[Shindig]

Aye, the human body can survive a surprising amount of punishment. And you're still probably gonna feel it.

[Lewis]

I've always thought if you had to pick a method it has to be jumping. It'd be one hell of a ride and surely painless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nish_Bruce

Proper job that. I bet he was buzzing.

[Offshore Toon]

That's a good height. I've read plenty of stories detailing how much suffering the human body can take so I reckon anything under 10 floors is an unnecessary risk. When it comes to jumping, the worst case scenario truly is becoming a vegetable.

[Dquincy]

Are you joking?... 8 or 9 storeys high would obliterate you. That's close to 30 metres high.

[Don]

Are you doing an Olympic dive? People have survived jumping out of planes.

[Dquincy]

Was it on the runway.

A fair few buildings I deal with in London have had jumpers. They've been under 10 storeys and the fella partially exploded once he hit the pavement.

[phonics]

There was a bridge people used to jump off near my family's place and it became so famous for people jumping off of it they lowered the fall you could make jumping off their which just resulted in the people jumping after that breaking all their limbs and surviving in agony for the rest of their life.

[Pepe]

The key is to dive head first. Need to practice in the pool a few times beforehand. It increases your terminal velocity considerably, plus the impact is on a more sensitive area, obviously.

[Offshore Toon]

Problem with diving head first is you don't get to take in the view on your way down. You need a good run up and then bombing it should give you the thrill and view desired whilst ensuring death as your spine bursts through your skull.

[Pepe]

If you will do that, tight clothing is a must. You don't want any extra drag slowing you down.

[Lewis]

Apparently when people chuck themselves off the Humber Bridge feet first they hit the water like concrete and it just rams their legs up through the rest of their body, so the little river wardens fish folded up corpses out.

[Queenslander]

Apparently when people chuck themselves off the Humber Bridge feet first they hit the water like concrete and it just rams their legs up through the rest of their body, so the little river wardens fish folded up corpses out.

Same with the Story Bridge in Brisbane and if they jump closer to the water near the shore they get stuck in the muddy sediment and drown.

[mo]

Christ this thread is not good for my mental health.

[Spikey M]

Apparently when people chuck themselves off the Humber Bridge feet first they hit the water like concrete and it just rams their legs up through the rest of their body, so the little river wardens fish folded up corpses out.

Is there loads of midgets up there now?

[Giggles]

I like how the mental health thread has turned into How to kill yourself 101.

[Queenslander]

:lol:

[Shindig]

One of the things our mental health person advised is to always ask 'what their plans are' if you get a suicide call. How they're gonna do it, etc. Also, she was bipolar and was clearly manic throughout the whole presentation.

[Kikó]

Problem with diving head first is you don't get to take in the view on your way down. You need a good run up and then bombing it should give you the thrill and view desired whilst ensuring death as your spine bursts through your skull.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAojxWZRVKk

[Spikey M]

One of the things our mental health person advised is to always ask 'what their plans are' if you get a suicide call. How they're gonna do it, etc.

"Slitting your throat? Brutal mate. Make sure you get right in behind the artery. Behind the windpipe if you can."

[Yevrah]

I like how the mental health thread has turned into How to kill yourself 101.

Which might well epitomise one of the exact problems you have when you encourage people to talk about it.

[Spammer]

There wasn't much explanation for what the thread was specifically about so i guess it's always going to drift to whatevs

Also: New page :cool:

[randomlegend]

I like how the mental health thread has turned into How to kill yourself 101.

The best way to actually kill yourself is (apparently, I've not tried it) a cannister of helium hooked up to a face mask.

You just happily drift off.

[randomlegend]

That's just reminded me, my Mum (who is a nurse) once told me as a child/teenager:

"If you ever want to kill yourself by slitting your wrists, you need to get in a warm bath afterwards to keep the blood flowing, otherwise it just clots".

[Spikey M]

:D

[Kikó]

https://www.startengine.com/fisherwallace

This looks pretty cool.