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[Popcorn Sutton]

Throughout my life I've known people who have either commit suicide or have tried several times. They all have something in common, there is always a brother and a sister. We might need to give people the heads up on potential experiences that have side effects as well.

[ydoaPs]

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moved to speculations

[elfmotat]

I have one brother and one sister as well. And I've never attempted suicide, nor has the thought ever crossed my mind.

[Popcorn Sutton]

All cases I know are between two siblings and only two siblings. None of them had any other siblings. Just one sibling of the opposite gender.

[elfmotat]

This is one of the dumbest, most offensive threads I've ever had the displeasure of reading.

[Popcorn Sutton]

I'm sorry it impacted you that way, I'm just describing the regularity I've noticed.

[Bignose]

I'm sorry it impacted you that way, I'm just describing the regularity I've noticed.

But... really?!?! Just because you have a few anecdotes, you automatically assume it true for everyone? You really can't Google and find literally thousands of people posting their story about only children committing suicide?!? (sadly, often the parents.)

This is just lazy. And I agree with the above, offensive. If you truly cared, you would have put 7 seconds of research into showing your idea is bunk.

Edited by Bignose, 8 March 2013 - 03:18 AM.

[CaptainPanic]

Popcorn, the problem people have here is that you have a couple of examples.... and that is not enough to extrapolate that to a general rule.

 

It might be just coincidence. And there are methods - using statistics - to prove that it is not just coincidence. The best method is to take a MUCH larger sample, meaning you look at many many more suicides, and see if in all those cases siblings play any role. We're not talking 10 more, but we're talking hundreds to thousands before this becomes statistically significant.

 

But your "theory" has another problem. The large majority of people have siblings. So, it is extremely likely that someone who commits suicide also has siblings. This link says that 80% of Americans (pdf warning) have at least one sibling.

It is like saying: "all cases of suicide or attempted suicide was by people who were breathing air containing oxygen". It's true, but it's a pretty useless remark.

[Popcorn Sutton]

You know, another interesting fact is that everyone who has commit suicide, in fact everyone who has died, has also drank water.

I'm just throwing out a bit of information that other people might be able to work with, not that my personal research actually involves topics such as these.

But it really kills me when I hear these things. I can barely hold back tears.

[swansont]

I'm sorry it impacted you that way, I'm just describing the regularity I've noticed.

 

The plural of anecdotes is not evidence.

[Consistency]

You know, another interesting fact is that everyone who has commit suicide, in fact everyone who has died, has also drank water.

 

lol

 

Were these people who killed themselves all poor or close to poor? Were they all males or females?

[Popcorn Sutton]

They've all been males and the behavior started around the age of 13. There was almost certainly sexual activity between the siblings. In one case that I know, the family caught them in the act.

It has ranged across social class. All cases that I know of are local.

[Consistency]

They've all been males and the behavior started around the age of 13. There was almost certainly sexual activity between the siblings. In one case that I know, the family caught them in the act.

It has ranged across social class. All cases that I know of are local.

 

lol sounds like you're making it up as you go....

You're saying that the older sister manipulated the younger bro into sex.

 

The shame could drive someone to kill themselves.

[Popcorn Sutton]

Older brother, younger sister.

And thats every case that I know of.

But I'm also a boy.

So it may work the other way around too

[ydoaPs]

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Off-topic speculative nonsense split from on-topic speculative nonsense.

[Ophiolite]

I'm just throwing out a bit of information that other people might be able to work with,

That's what people are objecting to. You are just throwing it out without the care and attention that the subject deserves. Elsewhere you have the audacity to describe these casual observations of events as research. So not only have you offended people who may have lost loved ones, you have offended science.

 

I suspect you are a pretty decent person, intelligent, well meaning and inquisitive, but why not make the decision today to start using that intelligence. It won't be too painful.

[Popcorn Sutton]

Well, for topics involving psychology and methods of psychiatry, I'm inclined to make a statement because it is within the realm of my reality. I can't stand to hear stories of people attempting or committing suicide. It breaks my heart. If I can do anything to help people understand this behavior, then the risk of putting myself out there is far less than the benefit it may have. Maybe its not research, and if you don't want me to call it that then fine. My research involves other things, and to me, there seems to be a pragmatic regularity in all cases that I know. This is why I suggested that we put disclaimers on the possible side effects of experiences. You blow up at a mcdonalds and start screaming obscenities because they havent given you your drink, then you might have anxiety associated with that event that lingers for a while. Same goes for other experiences, some of which may literally cause you to want to die. The context that one is exposed to is probably not reducible to chemicals or chemical imbalances (unless the chemicals equate to the knowledge of the experience). And causing a stroke may seem to have beneficial therapeutic effects, but by doing so, you are putting their life in danger. Even if they don't realize they had a stroke, they may have had a series of minor strokes (which seems to be the case with anti depressants).

Again, I'm no expert in psychiatry, but I have studied the brain extensively, and I have made computational models that, I think, replicate neural processes very well. The point is that behavior can be prompted with the right input.

[John Cuthber]

Popcorn,

Check this 

http://en.wikipedia....nfirmation_bias

[Popcorn Sutton]

I do also believe that your previous post was fallacious, and if it were up to me, I wouldn't use fallacies. And I don't like having to point them out, so please, make sure youre not being fallacious before you post.

Popcorn,
Check this 
http://en.wikipedia....nfirmation_bias

Thanks for refining my ontology. I really appreciate this community.

[John Cuthber]

I do also believe that your previous post was fallacious, and if it were up to me, I wouldn't use fallacies. And I don't like having to point them out, so please, make sure youre not being fallacious before you post.


Thanks for refining my ontology. I really appreciate this community.

Two problems.
What previous post?, and what fallacy?
It's not enough to say that something is wrong, you have to explain what is wrong and why.