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25% of the British are Mentally Ill (UK Chief Medical officer)
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RE: 25% of the British are Mentally Ill (UK Chief Medical officer)
It's actually a lot harder than you'd think to make a person dead. Overdosing (as I did) often ends up with the body emetically rejecting the lot (as I did, after losing something like a full day). Hanging is quite horrific and if unsuccessful can result in brain damage. Wrist slicing (as I did) takes a lot of desperate courage to cut deeper than attention-seeking shallow scratches but again, if unsuccessful can lead to tendon damage, likely permanent. There are of course more certain methods but they are much more difficult if not impossible to obtain, especially over here.

Additionally, I had and still have one real life person who has been my rock. There was one occasion in particular when I was sitting naked in my empty bath with a piece of broken glass poised over my left wrist. I had just started to press it into my skin when she rang my phone and said she was coming to see me and would be there in about ten minutes. For good or ill, she saved my life.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: 25% of the British are Mentally Ill (UK Chief Medical officer) - by Cyberman - January 16, 2015 at 1:12 pm

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