Suicide and Such-like

Whilst I realise that this is my second morbid blog in a row, I just suddenly felt the urge to take a brief blog break from my depression and suicide research(....can you see the link yet?). OK so I haven't gotten very far into my suicide notes, since I have only just stumbled upon methods of suicide....and No...before anybody panics...I do not have any suicidal thoughts or ideation, neither to I wish to act upon them, thanyou for asking. You psychiatric type people can crawl back into your crazy houses, or onto your rather conveniently placed Chais-lounges (which, by the way, I think are genius conspiracies created by shrinks to catch up on forty-winks between exhausting/heart sink patients).

As I was saying, I just finished making notes on suicide methodology (again this sounds bad)when I surprisingly discovered that death by carbon-monoxide from car exhausts is sitting at number 3 in the popularity list. This surprises me for several reasons;-

1) My imagery of this method is tainted by tv dramas and movies based in the 1950s of old or middle aged men choosing this option as the result of a particularly embarassing (and thus status destroying) event or similarly a troubled middle-aged housewife resorting to sticking her head in a gas cooker....hence fourth I firstly considered this as a choice for middle aged men (which are not the highest risk age group) or housewives (also not a high risk group) and a choice that is rather outdated

2)Also in my research discoveries, apparently attempted suicide was a criminal offence in the UK up until 1961. Which leads to me to the conclusion that in the 1950s...people probably didn't discuss their wishes to kill themselves or the method in which to do it. So how did someone even come up with this idea in the first place? I mean that is some serious planning desperation when that one was thought up....I suppose someone may have arrived at the car exhaust conclusion in the early days, with the earlier models of cars with roof's and therefore perhaps more chance of error....but again that is just speculaton.

3)In this day and age, when there are so many more suicide options in our very own homes....why is this still the front runner?


Next time on Poodle Ponders....Do Psychiatrists contribute to suicidal ideation and facilitate acts?

....Only joking, I promise to swear off morbid blogs for at least the next one

Is Fred Dead?

Ok, a very brief and materialistic note;

Freddie from Skins....has apparently just been killed according to my 4od online widget. To most people I imagine this will be some form of torture, but to me...Freddie gone is almost therapeutic. I am a religious skins watcher, and whilst I have never appreciated any significant acting ability in many of the cast(come on, you can't honestly think that is acting), I do have a special love for skins and its 'cult' originality. That aside, apart from the fact the freddie is a pretty boring character lets face it, I cannot help but feel a huge sigh of relief as I watch his blood splattered up against a stained glass door.

WHY? Because he is the last stimulus in the world/media that reminds me of an ex-boyfriend long ago. The similarity between our relationship and the one skin's has materialised is almost spooky, and so you can imagine my relief now that I will no longer have to relive the memories of those miniscule, yet frustrating chapters of my life.
When you leave someone, you expect to never see or hear from that person again, but when they sneak back in subtle ways, this can be very irritating, not to mention traumatic for some people. So my point is, if your gone, GO and never come back, and freddie....you were pretty...but don't give up your day job