By Mike Leary There are a lot of important answers on here. I am going to take a different tack for those who stumble on this post and have decided not to use the obvious skills of those trained in such critical matters. Having been suicidal a couple of times and having my brother intervene, [...]
Suicide
Here’s a great question asked on Quora: “If antidepressants are supposed to make you less depressed, why would they carry an increased suicide risk?” Supportive of the answer regarding an increased motivation that has been created by the antidepressant in the system, another supporting observation to the “activating the motivation necessary to carry out suicide [...]
This is a compelling read – a short interview with the author of History of a Suicide, and how suicide remains a taboo subject still. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/03/31/history-of-a-suicide-an-interview-with-jill-bialosky/
On Quora there were a couple of questions relating to suicide that piqued my interest: Why did David Foster Wallace commit suicide? and Is Suicide Selfish? As a person who has, in the past, experienced clinical depression and suicidal ideation, I understand that this question is 1) loaded and 2) easy to answer with a [...]
Suicide is a controversial subject. This is my opinion, take it as such! [keep reading]
Why Chinese Mothers are Superior, Wall street journal saturday edition. The marketing tactic that aims to generate publicity for Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Well, it sure worked! A ton of blog responses and over 2000 comments on WSJ at this point. OMG! This was even hotter than the “Motrin Mom” [...]
OK, so yes, Chinese parents seem to produce obedient children who excel in academics. But I still don’t know why this model of beating or brainwashing their kids into submission is being touted as if it were the superior form of parenting. Maybe western or westernized parents do care a bit too much about their [...]
