Psychiatric assistance is not always the answer. Some of the drugs that are prescribed have warnings of suicidal thoughts and tendencies as mentioned on the mayo clinic web page and from experience of watching a friend who had suicidal attempts this week, without having been brought up with a family of followers, doctrine, belief, following, some of these psychiatric drugs prescribed are the cause of some behavior that could lead to suicide.
________________________________ From: Vaj <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 30 May, 2010 8:35:22 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Acedia & Fairfield On May 30, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Buck wrote: > >> >> > >> > In the news, a young person of the meditating community put an end to his >> > life this last week. >> > >> > http://preview. tinyurl.com/ 34a3rnz >> > >> >> >> From the end of the earth I call; >> My heart is faint. >> -Psalm 61:13 >> >> " `Tristitia' seems to be a sadness caused >> by adversity and trial in social life. >> It comes from lack of peace with others. > >`Acedia' is rather the sadness, the >> disgust with life, which comes from a much >> deeper source –our inability to get along with ourselves, >> and our disunion with God." >> -Thomas Merton >> > >FW; >"I knew Daniel well and have a little different take than some others. this is >what my perception was knowing what was going on. Had I known the last 2 >months he told so many people his pain was too great and he was thinking of >killing himself I would have intervened strongly in some way. intervention may >have helped but at the same time. a person has to be receptive and I don't >know how receptive Daniel was. that advaita group all think they are beyond >human help and looked to him as the mentor and teacher and he had no one." ><end paste> You mean the FF enlightened sage support group didn't help? No surprise there! My condolences to his family. What a sad outcome, for a situation that sounds like it could have been prevented. Claiming ultimate openness to all things and then having someone die because of reticence for psychiatric assistance is truly unenlightened. I wonder if this is the same Swartz who used to be on the Wednesday Night SS list?
