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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Things you should know about suicide 🤝


Things You Should Know About Suicide

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 700,000 people die by suicide each year and it is the fourth leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds worldwide.

It's a huge and complex global public health issue, and most experts agree that suicide deaths occur for many different reasons and are the result of a complex interplay between many different risk and protective factors (which change over time). 

Still, there are a lot of myths about it.

Our goal today is to debunk some of these myths, and provide an evidence-based approach to helping people (perhaps including yourself) dealing with thoughts about suicide.

This content should not be used as a substitute for professional mental health treatment. This content is designed for educational purposes. If you feel you may be suicidal, we strongly advise you to see a counselor, therapist, psychiatrist, or other appropriate professional right away.

The resources listed at the end of this email can assist you in finding help. 
 

Myths and facts about suicide 


Myth #1: Asking about suicide makes somebody suicidal.

 

There are now many studies showing the opposite. People who are exposed to suicide-related content (e.g., questions about whether they have ever experienced suicidal thoughts) experienced reduced suicidal ideation and lowered the likelihood that the individual would later engage in suicidal behaviors (e.g., suicide attempt, non-suicidal self-injury). Similarly, asking persons with depression if they are having thoughts of suicide can reduce depressive symptoms in some cases. Lastly, some individuals at risk for suicide tend to experience less suicidal thoughts when they were assessed for risk.
 

Myth #2: If somebody really wants to kill themselves, nothing will stop them.

 

There have been several large, population-level studies that have found a similar pattern – most people (about 90%) who attempt suicide and live do not go on to die of suicide. Further, these studies also indicate that most people who attempt suicide and live, do not make another attempt (about 75%).
 

Myth #3: There is nothing we can do to help a person at risk for suicide.

 

Research supports several interventions and treatments that help reduce suicide risk. Limiting access to lethal methods for suicidal individuals (especially firearms) shows a strong association with reducing suicide deaths. There are also many well-researched psychotherapeutic treatments that may reduce the risk of suicide, such as Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (B-CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). Further, there are also quick interventions, such as Safety Plans (more on this later) that have been found to reduce suicide risk.
 

What do we actually know about suicide prevention? 

 

There are well-researched, modern theories of suicide that agree on a general model for understanding why many people die of suicide. These theories include (but are not limited to) the Three-Step Theory (3ST) and the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide (ITS); often referred collectively as ideation-to-action frameworks.
This picture shows the general overlapping principles of ideation-to-action frameworks (i.e., both 3ST and ITS models) that help describe why many people die by suicide.

No single risk factor can accurately predict who will die of suicide. This is because suicide risk is the result of a complex, dynamic interaction between a multitude of fluctuating risk and protective factors, so it is important to treat suicide risk with the utmost seriousness. 

Although no single risk factor can accurately predict who will die of suicide, there are some risk factors that have been identified that appear to put people at higher risk than others:

  • Alienation/withdrawal
  • Disconnectedness
  • Loneliness
  • Believing they are a burden to others 
  • Hopelessness
  • Some mental disorders (e.g., depression, ADHD, panic disorder, PTSD, bipolar disorder)

These are risk factors that, in combination with the risk factors noted above, create high-risk conditions. 

For example, having access to lethal means by itself does not make someone want to die, but someone with suicidal thoughts who also has access to lethal means is at higher risk than someone with suicidal thoughts without access to lethal means.
 

How do you help someone with suicidal thoughts?

 

Suicidal crises (when people are actively deciding whether to go through with suicide) appear to usually be very brief. Thus, getting people through the day (or even the hour) can save lives. 

One simple intervention that has been found to reduce suicide risk is called a Safety Plan.

Safety plans are often used by clinicians, doctors, and other health professionals to help people get through a suicidal crisis - a highly stressful, emotional period when someone may consider attempting suicide. You can use a safety plan to help someone else or to help yourself. 

A safety plan involves the following steps in advance of being acutely suicidal, so that you have a concrete plan of what to do if you're feeling suicidal:

1. Recognize Warning Signs. What are some warning signs (e.g., thoughts, images, behaviors) that a suicidal crisis may be developing? List two or three warning signs. If you can't imagine warning signs for a crisis, try imagining warning signs for a strong, negative emotional reaction. Example: When I start to think that my family would be better off without me.

2. Consider Independent Coping Strategies. What can you do to take your mind off your problems without contacting another person? Examples: Deep breathing, or playing video games.

3. Find Social Settings That Provide Distraction. If these coping strategies haven't worked after a few minutes, that's okay - let's move on to something else. Who are some people you would feel comfortable talking to/calling that could distract you? What social settings could you move to (e.g., a coffee shop, library) to help distract yourself? Generate two or more people or locations (write down telephone numbers if available). Example: Bryan Bower (111) 111-1111, or Vasa Park (the busy park by my house).

4. Consider Contacts to Ask For Help. Who are some people you can call to ask for help? These are people you feel comfortable talking to about what is going on, the difficulties you are having, etc. Provide two or three people you could call (e.g., close friends, family members, spouse/partner) and their phone numbers if available. Example: Sister (Jane) (111) 111-1111.

5. Contact Mental Health Professionals and Organizations. If you are seeing a clinician (e.g., psychologist, psychiatrist, counselor/therapist), write their name(s) and phone number(s). Also, list an urgent care center (e.g., hospital emergency room) address and phone number. If you live in the U.S., write down the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline phone number (1-800-273-8255) if these are not currently available. Example: Dr. Cromarty, (111) 111-1111.

6. Make the environment safer. List one or two ways you could make your environment safer (e.g., have someone temporarily hold onto your firearms/lock up firearms and store ammunition separately, remove sharp objects from being easily accessible, or remove medicines that could be lethal if taken in large doses). Example: Temporarily give my firearms to my best friend.
If you would like to build a safety plan and receive a copy of it by email, plus explore more resources and some coping skills to deal with thoughts about suicide, we encourage you to try our free, 30-minute mini-course:
 
Mini-Course: What You Need To Know About Suicide

This mini-course was written by Brian W. Bauer as part of our 2020 Micro Grants, and it was checked by mental health experts. Please keep in mind that it's not intended to be used as a substitute for professional treatment.
 

More resources

 

Here are some other reliable resources and information about suicide that you or someone you know may find helpful. 

  • The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255). A US-based service that provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. This also provides prevention and crisis resources for the caller, their loved ones, as well as information on best practices for professionals.

  • ReThink.Org A UK-based service that provides information and education about mental health symptoms, provides crisis and recovery services, as well as information and local resources.

  • SuicideCallBackService An AUS-based, nationwide service that provides professional 24/7 telephone and online counseling to people who are affected by suicide. This site is designed to help those feeling suicidal, those who are worried about someone who is suicidal, and those who have lost someone to suicide.

We hope you find this information useful. Talking about suicide can be uncomfortable, but it's also a way to bring awareness to this major public health issue. As the World Health Organization puts it:

"Stigma, particularly surrounding mental disorders and suicide, means many people thinking of taking their own life or who have attempted suicide are not seeking help and are therefore not getting the help they need. The prevention of suicide has not been adequately addressed due to a lack of awareness of suicide as a major public health problem and the taboo in many societies to openly discuss it. To date, only a few countries have included suicide prevention among their health priorities and only 38 countries report having a national suicide prevention strategy."

World Health Organization Overview on Suicide

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Friday, October 06, 2023

old building on central MUST REQUIRE affordable housing

This is WRONG!

Taking down an old building on central MUST REQUIRE new apartments. These old apartments where the cheapest, smallest, dirtiest in town. NOTHING BUILT should be available to anyone at any price above the SAME $500/month that it was. WE DO NOT NEED more $500/night Airbnb's in town. 

PLEASE STOP CONSTRUCTION until they have plans for affordable housing in the top floor. . . 

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Thanks, God Bless,
Rafé

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Cancer is ManMade just like C0v!d

Radiation Treatment Can Cause Cancer

Radiation treatment should be avoided as much as possible, since it’s toxic by nature. The side effects vary depending on the area of the body being treated. Along with fatigue, which is a near universal side effect of radiation therapy, you may experience any of the following:14

Hair loss

Memory problems

Nausea and vomiting

Skin changes

Headaches

Blurry vision

Swelling and tenderness

Throat problems, including trouble swallowing

Cough

Shortness of breath

Mouth problems

Taste changes

Less active thyroid gland

Diarrhea

Sexual problems

Fertility problems

Urinary and bladder problems

There’s also a risk that radiation therapy will lead to the development of a second cancer. Radiation exposure is a risk factor for most types of leukemia, along with myelodysplastic syndrome, a type of bone marrow cancer that may turn into leukemia.

Radiation therapy also increases the risk of solid tumors, including lung, thyroid, bone, pancreatic, stomach, liver and colorectal cancers, which often develop 10 years or more after the treatment. In one study of 52,613 patients who received radiation therapy, an increased risk of second cancer was found even after 40 years compared to the general population.15

“Radiotherapy has been considered as a double-edged sword as it has a well-established role in the management of solid cancers but unfortunately it is likely to induce cancers years after the treatment,” researchers explained in Radiation Oncology Journal.16 Chemotherapy is also linked with the development of second cancers.17

Susan Wadia-Ells, Ph.D., was inspired to write "Busting Breast Cancer: Five Simple Steps to Keep Breast Cancer Out of Your Body” after losing several friends to recurrent metastatic breast cancer, meaning cancer that was "successfully treated" at an early stage, only to later return as a terminal stage or metastatic disease.18

If you are going to submit your body to radiation, it’s best to protect your body with molecular hydrogen, probably two tablets twice a day for three days before and after the treatment. It would also be helpful to make sure you are taking 50 mg of niacinamide three times a day and methylene blue 50 mg once a day for a few days before and after the treatment.

Even Low-Dose Radiation Exposure Increases Cancer Deaths

Efforts to eliminate radiation therapy altogether may be necessary to protect cancer patients from subsequent cancers. A study that investigated workers in the nuclear industry in France, the U.K. and the U.S., who are exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation over longer periods of time, found an increased risk of cancer mortality.19

A linear increase in the relative rate of cancer was found with increasing radiation exposure, and risk of solid cancers increased by 52% for every unit of radiation each worker absorbed.20 The cancer risks from low-dose radiation exposure may, in fact, be underestimated. According to the study:21

“For the purposes of radiation protection, people often assume that low dose rate exposures pose less carcinogenic hazard than the high dose rate exposures experienced by the Japanese atomic bomb survivors ... Our study does not find evidence of reduced risk per unit dose for solid cancer among workers typically exposed to radiation at low dose rates.”

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Pf!zer and M0derna are "approved" for !nd!v!duals 12 years of age and 0lder

As you’ve likely heard by now, the U.S. government is rolling out a new COVID shot1 this fall that is recommended for all people, including those who have not taken the initial series.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,2 the reformulated shots by Pfizer and Moderna are "approved" for individuals 12 years of age and older, and "authorized under emergency use" for children between the ages of 6 months and 11 years.

This despite the fact that no emergency declaration exists to warrant it. The federal COVID-19 public health emergency declaration ended May 11, 2023.3 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel has not yet announced its official recommendations,4 but per the FDA:

  • Individuals 5 years of age and older, regardless of previous COVID jab status, will be eligible to receive a single dose of the reformulated shot. Those who have received previous shots should wait at least two months since the last dose.
  • Children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years who have previously received one or more COVID shots will be eligible to receive one or two doses of the updated jab, depending on the last injection received.
  • Unjabbed children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years will be eligible to receive three doses of the updated Pfizer shot or two doses of the updated Moderna jab.

FDA Continues the Propaganda Spin

The new shots are formulated to include a single mRNA corresponding to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5., the dominant variant in the U.S. for most of 2023, but which has since been replaced by other variants.

As explained by the FDA, they anticipate the COVID jab will be updated once a year going forward, just like the seasonal flu vaccine, which, by the way, is notoriously ineffective due to mismatched strains. Will the reformulated shot be any safer or more effective than the previous ones? I doubt it. As noted by the FDA:5

"The updated mRNA vaccines are manufactured using a similar process as previous formulations ...

[The] extent of neutralization observed by the updated vaccines against currently circulating viral variants causing COVID-19, including EG.5 and BA.2.86, appears to be of a similar magnitude to the extent of neutralization observed with prior versions of the vaccines against corresponding prior variants against which they had been developed to provide protection.

This suggests that the vaccines are a good match for protecting against the currently circulating COVID-19 variants. The benefit-risk profile of previously authorized and approved mRNA COVID-19 vaccines is well understood as these vaccines have been administered to hundreds of millions of people in the United States."

Those familiar with the evidence will of course realize that, a) previous shots have been woefully ineffective, offering minimal protection at best, and only for a short time, and b) the benefit-to-risk profile is "well-understood" to be markedly skewed toward "high risk" and "minimal benefit" for most people.

Adults 60 and over are also encouraged to get the flu shot and/or a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) concomitant with the COVID jab to prevent a "tripledemic." Pregnant women are also encouraged to get all of these shots, which really ought to be considered a crime at this point.

As for cost, the updated COVID shots will have a price tag between $110 to $130 per dose. The flu shot will cost anywhere from $20 to $70, depending on the vaccine you get, and the RSV vaccine is predicted to run anywhere between $180 and $295.6 All three shots are covered by private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare, but for the uninsured, getting all three could get costly.

Where Have We Heard This Before?

As expected, Pfizer and Moderna are also spinning the same old weave, claiming the reformulated shots are "effective" against several Omicron strains, including XBB.1.5, BA.2.86 (nicknamed Pirola), EG.5 (Eris) and FL.1.5.1 (Fornax).

Interestingly, they’re not bragging about percentages this time. Instead, we’re simply being told the shots are "significantly effective" or just "effective," whatever that means.

Remember when Pfizer and Moderna claimed their shots were 95% effective and had no serious safety concerns?7 Fast-forward to February 2023 and data from the Office of National Statistics in the U.K. revealed the shots have increased all-cause mortality for all age groups while doing nothing to reduce deaths from COVID.8,9,10,11,12,13,14

Pfizer documents released by the FDA in response to a lawsuit have also revealed that in the first three months of the rollout (December 2020 through the end of February 2021), Pfizer received 42,086 adverse event reports, including 1,223 deaths.15,16 The 1976 swine flu vaccine was pulled after only 25 deaths.

We’ve also learned that Pfizer documented17,18 no fewer than 158,000 different "side effects of special interest" in its trials, all while claiming there were no safety concerns.

The first side effect on this shockingly exhaustive list is a rare condition known as 1p36 deletion syndrome. This condition, caused by the deletion of DNA in chromosome 1p36, results in developmental delays, severe intellectual disability, seizures, vision problems, hearing loss, breathing problems, brain anomalies, congenital heart defects, cardiomyopathy, renal anomalies, genital malformation, metabolic problems and more.19,20

Life expectancy depends on the amount of DNA that has been deleted. This, at bare minimum, sounds like something a pregnant woman might want to know before she gets the shot.

Pfizer also claimed its shot was 100% effective in children between 12 and 15,21 but according to a June 2022 paper,22 the vaccine effectiveness against infection in children aged 12 to 17 ended up being only 64%.

Not only did breakthrough infections occur in "fully immunized" adolescents,23 we also started seeing a rise in multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS24) and myocarditis, both of which can be life threatening, whereas COVID poses a negligible risk to children, adolescents and young adults.

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