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In reply to the discussion: This picture tweeted by The Academy (Oscars) about Robin Williams is beyond poignant: [View all]FBaggins
(28,706 posts)63. As if that makes your claims any more valid.
Hint... it doesn't.
So you're saying that it's perfectly ok for me to be concerned with the use of the image... so long as I was talking about different forms of depression than you meant? Maybe manic depressives are "morons"... but not your flavor of depression?
That's ridiculous... and I can only suggest that you delete your prior posts on the matter.
Here are some more people who you seem to think don't get it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/13/robin-williams-genie-free_n_5674076.html
But mental health experts have warned that the image, when coupled with the caption, has some sinister undertones - a glorification of suicide as "freeing" an individual from pain and suffering, and a solution to problems. The Samaritan's guidelines for media on reporting suicide advise against anything that might "suggest that people are honouring the suicidal behaviour, rather than mourning a death".
...snip...
"It's not a helpful picture to share," Jane Powell, director of CALM which works on male suicide prevention, told The Huffington Post UK. "It's obviously been done very innocently, but the message is 'wouldn't you like to be free too?'
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Mark Winstanley, the chief executive of Rethink Mental Illness said he understood why people may want to share comforting images with "good intentions" when they are in mourning for a much-loved public figure, but said that the clip could "suggest suicide is a good way out, or an answer to your problems".
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Danny Baker, a mental health campaigner who started the Depression is Not Destiny project, said that the image glorified the act of suicide. "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but the message here is not the one we should be pushing, which is - you can get help. This portrays it as a 'release'."
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The reason why many international organisations have developed media reporting guidelines on suicide is because there is clear evidence that insensitive, over-simplified, melodramatic and overly sensationalised reporting is associated with increased risk of suicide in others, in particular among people who are already vulnerable, said Professor Rory O'Connor, of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory at the University of Glasgow.
But mental health experts have warned that the image, when coupled with the caption, has some sinister undertones - a glorification of suicide as "freeing" an individual from pain and suffering, and a solution to problems. The Samaritan's guidelines for media on reporting suicide advise against anything that might "suggest that people are honouring the suicidal behaviour, rather than mourning a death".
...snip...
"It's not a helpful picture to share," Jane Powell, director of CALM which works on male suicide prevention, told The Huffington Post UK. "It's obviously been done very innocently, but the message is 'wouldn't you like to be free too?'
...snip...
Mark Winstanley, the chief executive of Rethink Mental Illness said he understood why people may want to share comforting images with "good intentions" when they are in mourning for a much-loved public figure, but said that the clip could "suggest suicide is a good way out, or an answer to your problems".
...snip...
Danny Baker, a mental health campaigner who started the Depression is Not Destiny project, said that the image glorified the act of suicide. "Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but the message here is not the one we should be pushing, which is - you can get help. This portrays it as a 'release'."
...snip...
The reason why many international organisations have developed media reporting guidelines on suicide is because there is clear evidence that insensitive, over-simplified, melodramatic and overly sensationalised reporting is associated with increased risk of suicide in others, in particular among people who are already vulnerable, said Professor Rory O'Connor, of the Suicidal Behaviour Research Laboratory at the University of Glasgow.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm
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This picture tweeted by The Academy (Oscars) about Robin Williams is beyond poignant: [View all]
Are_grits_groceries
Aug 2014
OP
To a depressed & suicidal person "end suffering" and "solution" are often the same thing. n/t
FBaggins
Aug 2014
#14
Look, I didn't claim to have personal knowledge of depression. But the sentiment makes sense to me.
Hosnon
Aug 2014
#15
With 4 hides in 90 days I would think you might want to stop being the board nanny
HangOnKids
Aug 2014
#46
Yes. The problem is you are building a mental framework that is outside your experiences.
jeff47
Aug 2014
#39
And what you're doing is trying to speak for every person who ever suffered from depression.
MADem
Aug 2014
#53
Suicide contagion and social media: The dangers of sharing ‘Genie, you’re free’
Hissyspit
Aug 2014
#49