[CatBatMan]

I just read a comment someone wrote about suicide being selfish and that's a popular and inaccurate belief. Please just take a minute to read this because I believe that if you had the benefit of another person's perspective, you may come to understand that depression is an insidious and potentially lethal disease that has to be monitored and treated carefully just like any other life threatening condition.

This is my personal experience and the way that I have come to understand how this can happen. What I'm talking about here isn't quite universal but the understanding I have from my talks with doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, nurses and many patients like myself.

When someone has gotten to the point where this looks like a viable option, all the fight you had in you to preserve yourself and all the protective thoughts like "I wouldn't want to do this to my family" have eroded away so completely that it's just you alone with the depression and pain and all you know at that point is that the horror that you're living in right now feels like it will not ever get better and it is all-consuming.

You're in such a bad place right then that you're able to think only about making that torture stop. When one is this far into it, they are not even capable of realizing that the "help" they are trying to find right in that instant is the very thing that is going to bring the hurt to their family and friends. When you are in that dangerous frame of mind AND there is what you perceive to be at least a "likely" method (to be successful,) you are impulsive about it and don't want to be discovered and saved so you work quickly toward your goal.

When I say impulsive, I mean that it can be just a scant couple of minutes from when the idea to do this materializes in your head to the moment where your brain, in its desperation, decides "yes, this is the only valid solution."

The opportunity to try to get relief plus the desire to prevent this pain from continuing equals the impulsive, desperate action that devastates the people you leave behind. Yes, I am saying that it can happen so quickly that you're well into it before you realize (if at all) that it has already started.

21 years ago today, just about right at the time I am writing this line, (I have chills) my attempt was discovered and there was a long and fairly large scale medical intervention and, thankfully, I survived.

If anyone who may read this now or whenever in the future is depressed and contemplating suicide, please, please don't try to follow through with it- at least for right now. If you've ever had some wonderful moment of joy in your life, I need you to realize that so much more of that can be in your future with treatment.

There truly is strength in asking for help- battling depression alone or untreated feels practically impossible. Reaching out to get some help is a strength because you are trying to win against a powerful enemy. That's nothing anyone should ever feel shame for. Depression isn't a character flaw or a weakness. It isn't your fault and you didn't ask for it. It is just a chemical imbalance in the single most complex organ in our body. Help and hope are available to you if you just ask for it.

[antrod123]

I'm blue. Da ba di da ba di.

[kellyhound]

now if they only arrived one minute earlier.
great find

[Lugia]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

now if they only arrived one minute earlier.
great find

Looks like the video was edited. There's a cut right before the friends arrive. Was likely hanging there for a lot longer before they showed up.

[koipin]

Bonus points for his shirt matching the wall exactly.

[VileBreed]

Probably for the best.

[Killgaad]

Originally Posted by cicueto ↗

Only one of the guys seemed distraught upon seeing him dead; the others seemed pretty nonchalant about it. Maybe it's not a family

"It takes a village"—not a family.

What I wanna know is... how could he possibly overlook the fan?

It's India, after all.

R.I.P. (Compassion for his depression.)

P.S. Countless men out there suffering from androgenetic alopecia, and here's another guy who executes his perfect hairline.

[CatBatMan]

At 2 minutes and 35 seconds of suspension, people arrived and worked to relieve the pressure and bring him down. There had to be a chance of saving him if they would have not attended the Dr. Conrad Murray School of CPR.

[RoadRash]

So I'm no DR, so I don't fully understand the process. But he was only hanging a couple minutes. Isn't it possible for him to survive as long as his neck wasn't broken? Can't the brain survive for 6 minutes without oxygen before any damage occurs? I wonder why he died so quickly?

[AngelAssassin]

It looks as if the deceased may be in a dorm room, the people who found him are most likely school friends, maybe teammates, if the jerseys mean anything...
I think he was hanging a bit longer than the few minutes we are seeing. At 2 minutes you notice the video was cut and that the body drops a few inches as a result of his body relaxing. That would take several minutes by itself... I don’t believe he died quickly, you can see he was posturing for some time.
The brain can survive for several minutes without oxygen, but at some cost. The longer the brain is starved, the more damage it does. If you did happen to bring someone back, depending on how long their brain was starved, the patient may be left with severe lifelong neurological disabilities.