{"id":1275,"date":"2008-07-10T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T09:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2008\/07\/group-beyond-blue-concentrate.html"},"modified":"2008-07-10T09:45:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T09:45:33","slug":"group-beyond-blue-concentrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2008\/07\/group-beyond-blue-concentrate.html","title":{"rendered":"Group Beyond Blue: Concentrate on the “How” of Suicide, Versus the “Why”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGroup Beyond Blue member Larry Parker <\/a>started a discussion thread about the New York Times piece<\/a> on Group Beyond Blue at Beliefnet Community<\/a>. There he writes:<\/p>\n

It’s a little disorienting at first reading ourselves discussed in the clinical (literally and figuratively) terms of epidemiology rather than in the abject pain we suffer. The tale of British “coal gas” suicides will be familiar to anyone who has heard Elton John’s song “Someone Saved My Life Last Night,” for example.
\nBut there is a logic to it that becomes clear — logic, I think, similar to that I know I have discovered here on BB and I think many BBers discover as well:
\nFocus on the “how” rather than the “why”
\n(I would be interested in everyone’s reactions to the article …)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To read more Beyond Blue, go to www.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue<\/a>, and to get to Group Beyond Blue, a support group at Beliefnet Community, click here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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