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Tue Nov 24
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Care...meaning these magazine people as well, who think a gorgeous woman just insn't good enough.
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(That, and curly, coarse hair is a bitch in humid weather, so it keeps it under control.)
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and yes, if it looks like crap on the model......
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Just don't do this to the people who love you. They will feel the shame and blame themselves for the rest of their lives.
Reach out to someone.
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Coddling doesn't work. And suicide is the ultimate TANTRUM. From which no one recovers.
All bets are off however if said person is terminally ill.
11/23/09
Wow. I worked in mental health for many years and certainly there were some people for whom a suicide attempt was a cry for help or attention (e.g., cutting one's wrists but not nearly deep enough to actually bleed out). I also worked with a young woman who had thrown herself off of a highway overpass. I worked with a young man who took so much medication in an attempt to overdose that his liver was permanently damaged. I worked with a 47 year-old woman who'd been in and out of mental hospitals since she was 16. She was exhausted, hopeless, and in mental agony. These were not people throwing the "ultimate tantrum." These were people carrying an unbearable weight who truly saw death as the only way to find peace. If you had someone in your life who took his/her own life, I'm truly sorry and understand the pain that suicide foists on surviving loved ones. But categorically labeling suicide as the ultimate tantrum does no one any good.
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I'd feel bad that I was so harsh, but I suppose that since you've been "spanked enough" in an online forum, you'll be hardened enough to take this. Show those depressives who's boss!
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@randomnessish: What your mother said to you worked. That's what matters.
Background. I have a very good friend who has had her entire world shattered after her only child and her parents' only grandchild - an A student in college on scholarship - who after incurring a possession charge (pot at a demonstration) slit her wrists rather that face community service (picking up trash) and getting a job to replace the funds from her withdrawn scholarship (she wasn't expelled because the university saw the incident as most of us would - youthful mistake). Two of the worshipful high school seniors this girl tutored then follow suit.
This woman has not only lost her beloved child by being a responsible parent ("you will face the consequences of your actions") lost her husband who also blamed her for the tragedy - as a realtor she's lost a LOT of business and can barely get by and has to go to food banks where she used to volunteer, she's also a pariah in her community.
Everything we do impacts others, like ripples on the surface of a still pond. This was a beautiful shining person with her life stretching out in front of her. Her unhappiness and any depression were a temporary condition. Once. Now the pain is permanent. I loved her like a family member but I'm not sure I can forgive what she's done to her mother.
Don't ask me to see it as anything other than a huge tantrum. Pissing off now.