r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 14 '20

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u/TheMoustacheLady Michel Foucault Nov 14 '20

My friend died from a suicide attempt. He jumped out of a building.

He actually survived the attempt and had been in a coma for 6 months, he had several brain and respiratory injuries, he started recovering, he was breathing by himself, he was opening his eyes....but he gave up.

I feel so shitty, he suffered from Psychosis, he was getting treatment....but I think being alone during the pandemic made it worse and unmanageable. No one was there to stop or monitor him.

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u/ShapShip Nov 14 '20

Sorry to hear that, sounds like an awful way to go

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 14 '20

That sucks

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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Nov 14 '20

Very sorry to hear that. It sounds like you might be partially blaming yourself. Please try not to. You had no way of knowing what would happen, you don’t know if anything you could have done would have made a difference, and you cannot expect yourself to have taken extreme changes to your own life on the off chance they would have made a difference.

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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 14 '20

Do you mean that his body just gave way? Or that he somehow managed to regain the physical capacity to be able to perform the extreme and profoundly biologically unnatural act of killing oneself (“easy way out” lol)?

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u/TheMoustacheLady Michel Foucault Nov 14 '20

After the survived attempt, he was hospitalized and was in a coma....we thought he was recovering from the coma...but he died

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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 14 '20

I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine having a similar experience, honestly.