Suicides in the air?

[MK Scarlett]

Hmm. Interesting. I haven't had any with suicide, but I did have a couple of "word processing errors" in the last few days reading. But I put it down to having read too much and needing a break. But this doesn't happen usually, so I don't know.

Same here - no suicide, but a few "word processing errors."

The same here without be able to remember the specific word. And I usually think that it is because I am tired.

 

[Approaching Infinity]

Hmm. Interesting. I haven't had any with suicide, but I did have a couple of "word processing errors" in the last few days reading. But I put it down to having read too much and needing a break. But this doesn't happen usually, so I don't know.

Same here - no suicide, but a few "word processing errors."

The same here without be able to remember the specific word. And I usually think that it is because I am tired.

Same here. I know it happened some time in the last week, and I think it was even a book title. Can't remember the word for the life of me, though.

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

Same here. I know it happened some time in the last week, and I think it was even a book title. Can't remember the word for the life of me, though.

Well, imagine my surprise (and my embarrassment) when last week, as I was struggling to read a sentence in English, I realized that it was actually French (and yes, French is my mother tongue)...

 

[Teresa]

No reading or word processing errors here, but a close family friend did commit suicide last Friday. It was shocking because she was such a gentle person and she used a gun instead of taking pills.

 

[Gwenllian]

No reading or word processing errors here, but a close family friend did commit suicide last Friday. It was shocking because she was such a gentle person and she used a gun instead of taking pills.

I am really sorry to hear that, Teresa.

I don't know whether this helps, but I listened to SOTT radio's interview with Patrick Rodriguez (Spirit Release Therapy) and he said something about people that commit suicide that I thought was comforting. Thought I would just mention it.

 

[trendsetter37]

Hmm funny you mentioned this. At the beginning of Jan. one of our friends (not close we had just met her and helped take her son to school in the mornings) took her life by choking herself supposedly. Didn't even get to go the funeral because the family was very tight lipped about it all. It happened abruptly or so it seems from our perspective.

Shortly after that (maybe a few weeks later) I was helping a neighbor move to an adjacent apartment building. Well long story short it turned out that he was moving and simultaneously splitting up with the mother of his child because she was becoming increasingly unfit to care for their child. This culminated in him supposedly catching her saying that she wanted to kill herself. Which I think may have been the last straw for him.

This all happened in a very short time frame and unfortunately all within walking distance from my front door. All I could think about is this:

Those who are not integrated will disintegrate at an even faster rate than ever.

I haven't done the suicide misinterpretation but I have caught myself reading signs incredibly wrong. It was strange because I will read it then think wait a minute why would it ever say that and see that it was a blatant reading error.

 

[Teresa]

No reading or word processing errors here, but a close family friend did commit suicide last Friday. It was shocking because she was such a gentle person and she used a gun instead of taking pills.

I am really sorry to hear that, Teresa.

I don't know whether this helps, but I listened to SOTT radio's interview with Patrick Rodriguez (Spirit Release Therapy) and he said something about people that commit suicide that I thought was comforting. Thought I would just mention it.

Thank you Mariama. One of the first things I did was to listen to to SOTT interview with Patrick Rodriguez and it did give me some comfort.

This all happened in a very short time frame and unfortunately all within walking distance from my front door. All I could think about is this:

Those who are not integrated will disintegrate at an even faster rate than ever.

I haven't done the suicide misinterpretation but I have caught myself reading signs incredibly wrong. It was strange because I will read it then think wait a minute why would it ever say that and see that it was a blatant reading error.

You know, within the past year there have been a lot of sudden deaths within my circle of friends and the above quote has been on my mind. It's actually helped me understand what's going on and although it saddens me, at least I have some understanding.

On the flip side, I have had a number of friends talk about psychopathy, planetary changes and even the paleo diet and when these topics come up, I am thrilled that they are exploring things outside of mainstream media. I usually wind up loaning books if I have them or recommending further reading.

 

[rise]

Not suicide but definitely reading a title or quick email at work and then looking at it again 5 minutes later and it is NOT what I initially read. Seems to happen all the time lately so I've really started concentrating on making sure what I'm reading... and yet it still seems to happen.

 

[waverider 9]

This is unusual since I too had a "misread" and had a recent (last weekend so Feb14 - 17) trans-orthographic placement of the word "suicide" in a headline from a news article. The word made sense in context of the headline but not the article following.

I read in "blocks" i.e. usually a whole paragraph at once - I know of no one else and have heard of no one else doing this and it is not particularly a blessing since I usually have to backtrack quite a bit of text if something within the text is not jiving with the "context" of the document. Point in case is the Cassiopaea website and Laura's material that have forced me to slow down and read line-by-line from the onset.

Jeffery

 

[Andromeda]

There was also a local man who shot himself near here about a week ago. He had called the police to announce his intentions and they were able to locate him by his phone. The police arrived and surprised him, but when they tried to negotiate, the man locked himself in his car and then shot himself. Nothing was said about why he would have done it. It was rather disturbing.

Then I just saw this too: http://www.sott.net/article/274016-Mad-world-Depressed-factory-worker-offers-himself-as-sacrifice-to-tigers

 

[Peam]

Well there's no way I've remotely been feeling suicidal or anything like that, but reading this thread I've just realised that for the past couple of days, you know how a theme tune sometimes crops up in your head for a while and you can't get rid of it, well I've been thinking of that tune from M.A.S.H. “suicide is painless.” Not all the time but sporadic.

 

[lostinself]

Hi luke wilson

Well... about 9 days back, I was walking by the side of a river that was somewhat swollen though not flooding. For some weird reason as I was staring into the water, I felt the keen urge to jump in!! Don't know why. Needless to say, I didn't!

The urge quickly disappeared once I tore myself from the side of the river and continued my journey home. Haven't thought of it since till I read your post.

Reminds me of something I once read, sailors of old having a compulsion to jump overboard in to the ocean. Calenture I think it was called. Hallucinations as the result of some kind of fever, they imagined the seas to be open fields or other equally appealing things.

Not the same as you describe, I know, but what you said reminded me of it.

This is interesting. I believe i had similar reactions several times while being on a bridge over a broad river. Not that strong but there was a distinct feeling of the water "calling" me, a sense of the water being so vast that the only reasonable thing to do was to just let myself be swallowed by it. Weird. Wonder if that can be related to the sound and/or vibrations of moving water.

There's another thing also. I have a history of various deppressive/neurotic states that made me contemplate suicide quite often. While frequent, these thoughts have never been too serious; i've never made an attempt and have never really wanted to quit existence. They were "normal" thoughts of giving up, relatively common for people with problems they don't feel capable of dealing with. But, as i recall, there was at least one case when the feeling of hopelessness turned into some different kind of self-destructive mood. What had appeared was not a mere flow of dull thoughts but an *actual urge* to terminate my life as quickly as possible. I felt like put into a trance, like (again) there had been no other way for me than just opening the window i was standing by and jumping out. No other action seemed to make sense. Despite my generally poor mental state, this was totally detached and irrational. I had to ask somebody to stay at home fearing i could actually do myself a harm. The whole thing was short-lasting, luckily.

I don't want to speculate too much about suicide programs being beamed to be picked up by susceptible individuals, but maybe there is something to this? Or maybe environmental/vibrational factors play a role? I wonder if those poor youngsters at Bridgend also fall into this kind of detached trance-like state.

 

[lostinself]

I just typed "suicide trance" into DuckDuckGo and here's what showed up:

_https://suite101.com/a/understanding-the-suicidal-trance-a231319

Understanding the Suicidal Trance

The suicidal trance is a state that people enter shortly before attempting or completing suicide. Here's how to recognize the signs and intervene.

The suicidal trance was first identified by Richard A. Heckler, PhD, in his book Waking Up, Alive. Heckler interviewed people who had survived a suicide attempt and tried to reconstruct what led them to a place of such devastation that death seemed the only way out. The people that he interviewed all described slowly losing hope until they descended into a trance-like state where the only message they could tune in to was one of self destruction.

According to Heckler, "The trance marks the moment in which the world becomes devoid of all possibilities except one--suicide."

The Hallmarks of the Suicidal Trance

Dr. Heckler described several symptoms of a suicide trance, including:

• Tunnel vision. The person in the trance sees no way out of her problems except by committing suicide. Suicide is viewed as a positive, the only thing that will ease the unbearable emotional pain the person is feeling.
  Selective hearing and perception. Any message of hope is screened out as if it did not exist. Any offer of help is ignored. The person in a suicidal trance sees and hears only those messages that reinforce her belief that life offers nothing but further suffering.
  
• Command hallucinations. The person who is in a suicidal trance may hear a voice in her head urging her over and over to commit suicide. This mantra may become so loud, it drowns out the voices in the real world.
  Emotional isolation. The person in a suicidal trance withdraws from others. She may appear to be on "automatic pilot," not fully present.
  
• Eerie calmness. The person has made her decision, and now there is nothing left to do but carry out the suicide. People who see the suicidal person in this state will probably perceive her as very calm and focused. She may try to tie up loose ends by giving possessions away or saying goodbye to friends and family.
  

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(Sorry for making the topic even more dull but it's always good to be aware of existence of such phenomena)

 

[Arwenn]

Brain errors/word processing errors, yes, but not this one in particular.

I mean, I imagine if things get bad, there will be a LOT of people offing themselves, unfortunately.

Indeed. But, from what I see around me every day, people are already offing themselves: with their diet, their addictions, their choices, their lifestyle, their behaviour. It is already happening. They're offing themselves. They're just doing it slowly.

(End of gloomy rant )

Really well said, Mrs Tigersoap. People are 'offing' themselves indeed to being helped to do so with disastrous dis-info and subtle lies. And I too have noticed some word-processing errors, but not this one.

 

[Gonzo]

Definitely been misreading lately, especially headings, titles and signs, as if I'm reading too quickly and my mind inaccurately attempts to discern patterns and fill in the gap. I don't notice when it happens though, only when the mistake is obvious. I'm having to remind myself to slow down.

Interesting Peam mentioned Suicide is Painless. I played that song on YouTube at work. I can't recall why, but I think I might have been playing Guess the Theme Song from the 70s with cubicle neighbours.

Google Trends is showing a slight uptick in searches for "suicide" over the last few days. Looks like it peaked around Feb. 11. Not sure if you can access the link without logging into Google: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Suicide&date=today%201-m&cmpt=date

It might be interesting to note that Valentine's Day recently passed, but I don't know if suicide rates actually go up at that time or if it's a myth.

Like Gimpy mentioned, this winter seems to be taking its toll on a lot of people. While complaining about winter is a favorite Canadian pastime, many people I encounter are completely fed up with this winter in particular. Usually, this level of dread doesn't happen until late March if winter shows no sign of receding.

Gonzo