Thursday, September 23, 2004
Lost post
The recent suicides at NYU are disturbing. I wrote a really good post about this a few days ago, but it got lost in transmission. I thought I had lyrically pinpointed the kind of despair that leads to suicide and the reasons it is worth waiting instead of acting. Here goes a more prosaic effort.
Two weeks ago a graduate student at the film school took off all her clothes and jumped off an NYU building. Perhaps the NYU student had revealed a suicidal proclivity when she made a student film about a man who sent his son to Coney Island and then killed himself. Her death reminds me of another time life imitated art. The father of a friend had written a novel in which the protagonist killed himself. Later when my friend was a teenager his father did what his fictional character had done. There have been six other student suicides at NYU in the past year. In the years before there were others In Boston I had a friend who moved to San Francisco. Her brother was in the graduate school of business at NYU when he killed himself about two and a half years ago.
Although I know the rough details of only a few of the suicides, it seems that the students are popular and dynamic, not outwardly depressed.
A few days ago, sitting at a café I met a NYU undergraduate film student who said that he had heard that one of the NYU students had eaten mushrooms before jumping; he said the mushrooms made the student think he could fly. Could there be a drug connection in more of the suicides, I wondered out loud. No, that would be too easy an answer.
People who kill themselves usually have a kind of despair of living; not being alive seems like a better alternative. It could be that the future seems hopelessly bleak, that anything good that might happen has already been ruined by what has already happen, or that the present is just too hard to live through.
Life often seems like a timeline with a long history (the past) leading up to a present. The present sometimes painfully inches forward, on its way changing the future into the past. Sometimes the present zooms by really fast like we have no control over events.
But when a person feels like not living, it always worthwhile to wait. Life has an incredible way of surprising, given time, as if changing the colors of a picture, giving a different view of the same problems, even sometimes letting you see something obvious that you just could not see before.
Always wait.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
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19 Comments:
You are correct in your observations. Some of the suicides at NYU are being caused by a little known but normal feature of human physiology.
Fifty years ago engineers designing the first close-spaced office workstations were surprised when workers using them began to have bizarre or psychotic episodes. The problem was peripheral vision reflexes and the solution by the 1960's was the office Cubicle.
Students have the same behavior those knowledge workers did.
When a study or computer workstation is used in a room with repeating, detectable, movement it must have Cubicle Level Protection.
Read ...Prevention... at the bottom of most site pages at
http://VisionAndPsychosis.Net
The Everquest Connection page explains the psychology and relates it to MMORPG players. Shawn Woolley's mother sued Sony believing that Everquest addiction caused his suicide.
Qi Gong and Kundalini Yoga produce the same psychotic episodes. Case histories from China say that victims appear to be addicted to Qi Gong and can't stop gathering people to exercise with them. In both exercises each person can subliminally see, detect, the movement of others near them.
These two exercise forms demonstrate a 3000-year history for the phenomenon of physiology.
L K Tucker in McDonough Ga
You are correct in your observations. Some of the suicides at NYU are being caused by a little known but normal feature of human physiology.
Fifty years ago engineers designing the first close-spaced office workstations were surprised when workers using them began to have bizarre or psychotic episodes. The problem was peripheral vision reflexes and the solution by the 1960's was the office Cubicle.
Students have the same behavior those knowledge workers did.
When a study or computer workstation is used in a room with repeating, detectable, movement it must have Cubicle Level Protection.
Read ...Prevention... at the bottom of most site pages at
http://VisionAndPsychosis.Net
The Everquest Connection page explains the psychology and relates it to MMORPG players. Shawn Woolley's mother sued Sony believing that Everquest addiction caused his suicide.
Qi Gong and Kundalini Yoga produce the same psychotic episodes. Case histories from China say that victims appear to be addicted to Qi Gong and can't stop gathering people to exercise with them. In both exercises each person can subliminally see, detect, the movement of others near them.
These two exercise forms demonstrate a 3000-year history for the phenomenon of physiology.
L K Tucker in McDonough Ga
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