Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why?

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91. Excellent, insightful reply

All the more meaningful because you didn't dwell on your health struggles. So, first .

Elizabeth was a pioneer, and she worked with the mother of a high school classmate of mine and recorded an ALS video about it.

Strength in vulnerability is an excellent point.

The notion of honoring "pain and death as well as the joy" struck home in a way. As a VN vet in therapy for PTSD, I once had a therapist who noticed that every time he mentioned a negative effect on me, I'd say "Yeah, but..." and try to dismiss it.

That therapist told me that I was dissociating from my feelings (as a VA psychologist had already told me).

He started having me do a simple exercise when I arrived for an appointment--close my eyes, breathe, and listen to the sounds around me. The ticking of the clock, the cars on the street, the birds chirping outside the window....

So simple, but the effect was magical. He said that I hadn't been real before. But after the exercise I was real. And he was right. That old stoicism was not helping at all.

But I can certainly identify with your stoicistic tendencies--and your knocking that down.

I think you're amazing, and I hope you'll be around for a while, felix_numinous.