Deadly shooting at US university

[S.A.M.]

right in your backyard sam:

Indian teens have world's highest suicide rate
The highest suicide rate in the world has been reported among young women in South India by a new study.
The average suicide rate for young women aged between 15 to 19 living around Vellore in Tamil Nadu was 148 per 100,000. This compares to just 2.1 suicides per 100,000 in the same group in the UK.

The global suicide rate stands at 14.5 deaths per 100,000,
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4846

Not at all surprising. Lots of farmers in India commit suicide too.

 

[leopold]

WHO suicide statistics.
i tend to believe these over the others.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/

 

[leopold]

Not at all surprising. Lots of farmers in India commit suicide too.

let me guess, americas fault, right?

 

[Baron Max]

Not at all surprising. Lots of farmers in India commit suicide too.

Geez, I thought you said that India was a damned paradise, Sam??? Isn't that what you said and/or implyied???

Baron Max

 

[S.A.M.]

Hey babe, you can toy with whatever you like. WINK WINK.

With a brain and mouth like that, if only you were 20 years older.

I don't even think you're a woman. So now what?

Baron Max

Fortunately, it makes no difference.

 

[S.A.M.]

let me guess, americas fault, right?

Geez, I thought you said that India was a damned paradise, Sam??? Isn't that what you said and/or implyied???

Baron Max

I'm not the one who glosses over my country's shortcomings.

 

[leopold]

http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=65327

 

[Baron Max]

I'm not the one who glosses over my country's shortcomings.

Yes, Sam, you are! And worse, you know it.

Baron Max

 

[Raithere]

Traditionally Indians lived in a joint family system that provided a strong family support base for individuals with emotional or mental disturbances.
With Westernisation and materialism, this has been replaced in urban areas by dual income nuclear households weakening this support base. In the citie most people look for "modern" solutions to their problems which includes medicating overactive kids and those that are simply too much responsibility in a busy social and work life. Sadly, our society is going the Western way.

So did Americans 50 - 75 years ago. You touch on the problem and then skip past it to blame the Western world. The change is urbanization not westernization and it's a function of economics, not ethics. If you need to blame someone you should to look to the Middle-East and the cradle of civilization because that's where it started, English factories only increased what was already occurring.

The problem with urbanization is not materialism but stress. Too many people living too close to each other tend to isolate themselves socially. They also tend to exhibit other "abnormal" behaviors associated with stress (again we find such things are reflected in animal groups as well). Certainly family and community support is beneficial. Probably more so than the psychiatrist's couch. But it's not a solution for those with true neuro-chemical imbalances or severe psychological breaks.

And while the western world turns to pharmaceuticals and television those without access turn to ritual and traditional remedies. It's simply another facet of the same quest for a quick fix for our symptoms. Of course, the real answers lie a bit deeper.

~Raithere