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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Paul2 on October 31, 2016, 10:49:54 PM
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...Suicide resulted in 842,000 deaths globally in 2013 (up from 712,000 deaths in 1990).[8] This makes it the 10th leading cause of death worldwide.[2][9]
Three quarters of suicides globally occur in the developing world.[3] Rates of completed suicides are generally higher in men than in women, ranging from 1.5 times as much in the developing world to 3.5 times in the developed world.[10] Suicide is generally most common among those over the age of 70; however, in certain countries those aged between 15 and 30 are at highest risk.[10] There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year.[11] Non-fatal suicide attempts may lead to injury and long-term disabilities. In the Western world, attempts are more common in young people and females.[12]
...For every suicide that results in death there are between 10 and 40 attempted suicides.[12]
...The country's rate among men in their 50s rose by nearly half in the decade 1999–2010.[136] Lithuania, Japan and Hungary have the highest rates.[9] Around 75% of suicides occur in the developing world.[3] The countries with the greatest absolute numbers of suicides are China and India, accounting for over half the total.[9] In China, suicide is the 5th leading cause of death.[137]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide)
i remember reading this on a newspaper magazine 2 years ago and i thought i should post about it. i read that about 800,000 to 1 million people took their lives every year and the country with the highest suicide rate is india. especially if that person is a male and 50 years of age or older.
That is sad. i guess most of us can relate to the people who are suicidal from many reasons such as depression, despair, stressed, mental illness, bullying, etc.
i can really relate to because there are moments in my life where i felt suicidal from depression, despair, or bullying. luckily when i do feel depress, especially very depress, it only last for a few seconds then it go away. otherwise it will be a very unbearable long lasting feeling.
my first suicidal thought was when i was about 5 or 6 years old in vietnam when in school, i went to the restroom and i got locked inside and i couldn't opened the door. i think some kid locked me in. i cried in there then thought about climbing into the water sink. the water sink is like 3 feet deep, it almost look like a well but the sink is on top of the floor while a well under the ground though. i put up my feet wanting to climbing into the water sink and kill myself but luckily didn't do it. then about 20 minutes later or so, some teacher unlocked the door and let me out. that was in the late 1980s. if i remember correctly, in the decade of 1990, i never felt suicidal though. from beginning of 1990 to the end of 1999, i never was suicidal though.
in year 2000, when i was locked up in juvenile hall, there are times where i felt suicidal. like about a couple months in there, i felt suicidal from bullying, and another time from despair.
in summer of 2001, i felt suicidal from work where i get angry and stressed out from my first boss who made me so angry.
in 2002, i also felt suicidal from discrimination from an english teacher.
and the later years, there are time where i felt depressed and despair. so at this age, i can relate to why people took their lives. thank god i didn't dare attempt any suicide though.
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I feel suicidal whenever I run out of beer.
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I got a new job so my suicide risk just went way down.
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I got a new job so my suicide risk just went way down.
Give it a few months. That risk will shoot right back up ;)
What are you doing in your new job?
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I got a new job so my suicide risk just went way down.
Give it a few months. That risk will shoot right back up ;)
What are you doing in your new job?
Banking call center.
It's fucking tough as shit. The stress is getting to me. And I'm still in training!
Suicide risk back at moderate to worrying amounts.
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I got a new job so my suicide risk just went way down.
Give it a few months. That risk will shoot right back up ;)
What are you doing in your new job?
Banking call center.
It's fucking tough as shit. The stress is getting to me. And I'm still in training!
Suicide risk back at moderate to worrying amounts.
Damn son. I can imagine. Talking to retards all day? Having to deal with their problems? You just have to give them the old Jumpman charm ;)
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that is mean titan. btw, what old jumpman charm are you talking about?
hope everything work out for you jumpman. if the job is not for you, you can look for another one.
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that is mean titan. btw, what old jumpman charm are you talking about?
hope everything work out for you jumpman. if the job is not for you, you can look for another one.
Wait. What? How was that mean? I was joking about how he should use his sarcastic demeanor that he always has used in his posts towards asshole callers. Shit like this.
but anyways
no one cares what you think, past present future
I know you are but what am I.
(you not funny me funny I know but humor me)
BTW, these are actual posts from 8 years ago (https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psx4central.com%2Fcommunity%2FSmileys%2FPSX4Central%2Fjumpman.gif&hash=5fe3938f2154c673da4f7523643a0d2e9b6e87d9) :glaugh:
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oh i see. i didn't know, now i do. thanks for clearing that up. :) i am retarded. sorry about that.
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oh i see. i didn't know, now i do. thanks for clearing that up. :) i am retarded. sorry about that.
It's all good. No worries dude :)
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thank you. :)
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I got a new job so my suicide risk just went way down.
Give it a few months. That risk will shoot right back up ;)
What are you doing in your new job?
Banking call center.
It's fucking tough as shit. The stress is getting to me. And I'm still in training!
Suicide risk back at moderate to worrying amounts.
Damn son. I can imagine. Talking to retards all day? Having to deal with their problems? You just have to give them the old Jumpman charm ;)
I had to take a month off.
I don't know what I will do now. I honestly feel incapable of doing the job. Too much information.
Suicide risk very high. This is an all or nothing job for me. Fuck.
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that sucks. just take a month off to relax. take your time to think if this job is for you. if not, there are other jobs that might suit you. just experiment with different kind of jobs to see which one suits you.
hope there is a way for you so you won't have to feel suicidal.
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I got a new job so my suicide risk just went way down.
Give it a few months. That risk will shoot right back up ;)
What are you doing in your new job?
Banking call center.
It's fucking tough as shit. The stress is getting to me. And I'm still in training!
Suicide risk back at moderate to worrying amounts.
Damn son. I can imagine. Talking to retards all day? Having to deal with their problems? You just have to give them the old Jumpman charm ;)
I had to take a month off.
I don't know what I will do now. I honestly feel incapable of doing the job. Too much information.
Suicide risk very high. This is an all or nothing job for me. Fuck.
Shit dude. Did you quit or are you just taking a month off from the job to figure it out?
It really sounds like to me that this isn't the job for you. If you can, maybe taking some time off to rediscover yourself or figure out what you want to do professionally wise will help. I actually had this discussion with a friend of mine last night. He's in school to be a plumber. He always said he didn't mind the work and kinda liked it. He confided in me last night that he actually in fact does not like it and is just doing it because that is all he knows. I told him that at his age, he's going to be doing it for 35 years until he retires. That is a long time to be in a career you hate and it is my philosophy that if you do a job you like, you don't dread waking up in the morning, you aren't depressed and your overall quality of life is just better. So this kid is actually saying he wants to try and figure out something else he might want to do. We'll see what happens there. He is the kind of guy that would settle.
My point basically is this. You obviously don't like the job and it's obviously causing you great stress and is impacting you mentally. You seem to admit that it isn't worth it. I think you've already made the decision about the job. If you can afford to take time off to recharge, or find something else that's lower stress while still collecting a check from these assholes, it might be good to float your resume.
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I'm going to drink myself to death.
AND IN THE CROWD I see you with someone else.
I BRACE MYSELF cause I know it's going to hurt
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Haha...Jumpy I feel your pain bro. When i was in between jobs in took a job in an IT help desk call center. S**t was the worst. Dealing with people of all types and ranks...especially VP corporate folks who expect you to fix their crappy email account/corrupted accounts?
And management would kiss their ass even if they was talking rudely to us.... :scratch:....i mean you do what you gotta do to pay the bills, but i stayed there for 4 months and that was it...hopefully you can find something that you like doing.
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Jumpy. sorry to hear your plight. Forgive my untimeliness I'm sure you understand given the pace here.
From my perspective, you're contemplating the equivalent of hitting the reset button. The difference being you'll lose all you've learned from this time through. Hang in there! You should know damn well booze will only make things worse and is not near quick enough. Try pot for the pain relief. At least then, once you finally snap out of it, your body and mind won't be as physically wrecked afterward.
Check in if you can. I'll keep an eye out here for a while
Take care man
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800,000 children go missing every year in the US alone. Millions worldwide.
Am I wrong in thinking these are much more worrisome numbers?
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are you sure is that high that 800,000 children go missing every year in the US alone? that is really high.
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That seems a kinda high to me too. I definitely think this is in the thousands for sure but there are 200 million people in the US, 74 million children aged 0-17 as of 2016 (according to childstats.gov). That would mean one in 100 kids goes poof. 1% of children eventually goes missing still seems high to me. You have a source Heretic of how it's broken down? Does it take into account teen runaways vs. abductions? I mean, if it's just missing persons reports, then I guess that number could be correct. But most missing persons reports a lot of times tend to come back as runaways, like a teen girl running away to see her boyfriend or whatever or a teen sneaking out to see friends.
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Heretic was correct on the number. However, this article breaks it down. It's also from 2007 but the numbers are probably still consistent 10 years later.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/01/800000_missing_kids_really.html
wo boys abducted in Missouri were found in a St. Louis suburb last Friday, in the home of a pizza shop employee. One had been missing for less than a week, the other for more than four years. News reports cited a statistic that 800,000 children disappear every year—or about 2,000 a day. Seriously? How reliable are these numbers?
Reliable enough, but easily misinterpeted. Like most crime statistics, abduction numbers are fungible since they depend so much on whether the crime gets reported and how you define abduction. Saying a child is "missing" can mean any number of things; a child who has run away from home counts the same as a kidnapped murder victim. For officials, the total number includes those who fall into several different categories: family abduction, nonfamily abduction, runaways, throwaways (abandoned children), or lost and "otherwise missing" children. Local police departments register missing children with the federal National Criminal Information Center database, specifying what type of abduction it is.
When the categories get conflated, the statistics can become confusing. Take the number 800,000: It's true that 797,500 people under 18 were reported missing in a one-year period, according to a 2002 study. But of those cases, 203,900 were family abductions, 58,200 were nonfamily abductions, and only 115 were "stereotypical kidnappings," defined in one study as "a nonfamily abduction perpetrated by a slight acquaintance or stranger in which a child is detained overnight, transported at least 50 miles, held for ransom or abducted with the intent to keep the child permanently, or killed." Even these categories can be misleading: Overstaying a visit with a noncustodial parent, for example, could qualify as a family abduction. Some individuals get entered into the database multiple times after disappearing on different occasions, resulting in potentially misleading numbers.[/i]
But in other ways, the NCIC may understate the figures. Many missing persons aren't reported at all—a 1997 study estimated that only 5 percent of nonfamily abductions (in which a nonfamily member detains a child using force for more than an hour) get reported to police. Some police departments may not even bother filing a report when a kid runs away from home for a few days. It's also easy to lose track of abduction cases, since some of them get filed away under associated crimes, like homicide or sexual assault.
Until the early '80s, investigating cases of missing children was left entirely up to local officials, who didn't have an alert system in place or a central database to keep records. But after a series of high-profile abductions in the late 1970s and early '80s, like those of 6-year-olds Etan Patz and Adam Walsh (son of America's Most Wanted host John Walsh), Congress passed legislation creating the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an organization that monitors the FBI's database of missing children and collaborates with local law enforcement to get the word out. In recent years, states implemented "Amber laws," named after 9-year-old murder victim Amber Hagerman, setting up an alert system for missing children.
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If the number doesn't reflect those found and accounted for it does seem to be very misleading if not outright bogus. Curious the number dates back to a 2002 report and so far as I can tell no hard numbers have been released of a toll of those still missing for any year since. I'll look around some more and update if I find anything more conclusive.
Didn't mean to hijack the thread. The 800,000 suicide number jumped out at me as I had run across the same number in reference to missing kids a couple of times recently. Be prepared to hear a lot of news about human trafficking in the coming months.
On topic. I suffered from a fairly severe case of insomnia for about a year (prescription drug side affect) and during that time felt I gained a sense of understanding how people get to the point where they'd be willing to take their own life. Never considered doing so, as I attempted to convey to Jumpman not an option in my view, though I longed desperately for relief. I've had an extremely blessed life so that sleepless phase was a real eye opener for me, no pun intended.
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that suck that there were time in your life where you felt suicidal. glad that you can sleep normally again and no longer felt suicidal.
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back at you man. I know you haven't had it easy for much of your life and you have held up well in spite of it all
70's flashback; keep on truckin'! :bounce:
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thanks a lot for the very kind words. very appreciate it. :)