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Suicidal People
Topic Started: Aug 8 2010, 08:43 PM (515 Views)
Paradise
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You did great Q. Seriously.
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flumes
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The point where I'd kill myself because of depression comes far after the point where my liver fails and I die from alcohol poisoning... :huh:

Dead serious.
A. I've got too much left to accomplish in life, and since I don't believe in the after-life the clock's already ticking...
B. I don't have the balls to kill myself.
C. Commonly heard: "Don't get mad, get even." I'd add: "Don't get sad, get even."
If I'm ever sad, you better believe I'm much more mad, which would lead to me getting even! :rolleyes: ^^ When I'm even, I'm over it.

If there is any truth to the chemical imbalance stuff... I've got an imbalance in the opposite direction. Optimism is the good life!
Edited by flumes, Aug 12 2010, 08:29 PM.
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

flumes
Aug 12 2010, 08:27 PM
If there is any truth to the chemical imbalance stuff... I've got an imbalance in the opposite direction. Optimism is the good life!
There is much truth in the chemical imbalance stuff.
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Quaon
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The problem I have with "chemical imbalance" talk is that it tends to imply that, when you aren't suicidal, your mind has nothing to do with chemicals or whatever, you're a completely free soul. That's simply not true. We are chemical reactions in a very real sense.*

* If Telo or anybody else who knows philosophy of mind reads this, I'm not actually a materialist, but more a property dualist.
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Tristan da Cunha
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Hmm I don't see that implication at all. To the contrary, "chemical imbalance" talk tends to highlight the chemical nature of sentience.
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Telosan
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Quaon
Aug 12 2010, 10:13 PM
The problem I have with "chemical imbalance" talk is that it tends to imply that, when you aren't suicidal, your mind has nothing to do with chemicals or whatever, you're a completely free soul. That's simply not true. We are chemical reactions in a very real sense.*

* If Telo or anybody else who knows philosophy of mind reads this, I'm not actually a materialist, but more a property dualist.
You knew exactly what I was going to say.
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