Indian media needs to reflect more carefully on how suicide is reported. The framing, visuals, and headlines in most news reports are unhelpful and not needed . Vulnerable people are reading too. Responsible reporting can save lives. #MentalHealth #NEET #SuicidePrevention

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Most of the accounts that are abusing Vikram Misri seem to be fake accounts, impersonators and bots. I reported couple of them . Please have look @vinodfex @zoo_bear @NotMengele Looks like target attempt to orchestrate a narrative. #IndiaPakistanTensions

Exposing @careinsuranceIN fraud! They promise double sum insured for accidents — but hide behind a ₹1L fracture sublimit to deny full hospitalization claims. Accidents don’t just mean fractures! Shameful deception. IRDAI wants hard copies of IPD papers. Just Delay & Deny!!

My mother suffered a road accident with multiple injuries—yet @careinsuranceIN only paid for a fracture. Her policy promises double sum insured for accidents, but they ignored medical proof of serious trauma, low oxygen & delayed surgery. @IRDAIndia @ConsumerAffairs @PMOIndia

My mother met with a hit-and-run accident near Ghazipur took her to Sadar Hospital, but shockingly—NO doctor was on duty, NO X-ray done for 6 HOURS. She's now being rushed to Mau in critical condition. Please pray for her.Govt must act against this negligence @myogiadityanath 🙏

Six reasons people keep repeating painful experiences 1️⃣ To alleviate guilt. Some people feel guilty about success or pleasure, as if enjoyment were a transgression. They seek suffering to expiate guilt and pay off their conscience. In some cases, pain and suffering become the “admission price” for whatever pleasures they allow themselves 2️⃣To gain a sense of control and mastery. The person attempts to gain a sense of control over painful or traumatic experiences they once experienced helplessly. There is an underlying (unconscious) fantasy they can undo a past trauma, or right a past wrong, by repeating it and getting it to come out differently (but in reality, they just keep reliving the same pain) 3️⃣Suffering is home. An analogy can help us understand this: when panicked horses are rescued from a burning stable, they often run back in. The horses associate the stable with safety and security—it’s home A child’s earliest attachments, however unhappy, are also home. However neglectful or abusive, that was where the child experienced whatever care and comfort they knew. In their search for comfort, they seek the same pain 4️⃣Secondary gain. Pain, suffering, and MH symptoms come with indirect or hidden benefits, which clinicians call “secondary gain.” Their difficulties may bring attention, sympathy, release from responsibilities, special treatment, even financial incentives (eg, disability pay). Secondary gain can be a powerful incentive for continued suffering In psychotherapy, it can be helpful to invite patients to reflect on the *downside* of getting well. The first response is likely to be something like, “There is no downside, I’d do anything to get better.” If the therapist persists and says something like,“Not so fast, let’s really think about this,” there may be some suprising insights 5️⃣To punish others (passive-aggression). The desire to punish someone else can be more powerful than the desire to avoid pain. For example, a person may unconsciously sabotage their prospects for success or happiness *precisely because it’s what someone else wants for them* (hence the expression, “cutting of your nose to spite your face”) Mental health symptoms also cause pain and suffering for *other* people. For example, a depressed person may be too depressed to do their share of work, earn a living, keep their social commitments, have sex with their partner, etc. There can be (generally unconscious) sadistic pleasure in inflicting this pain on others, especially without responsibility or consequences. But who can blame the suffering person? After all, they’re the victim 6️⃣To enhance self esteem or feel superior. For some, feelings of self-worth and even superiority are tied to self-deprivation and self-punishment. The person seems organized around the belief, “I am better than you because I suffer more.” The more suffering, the more they feel morally superior. In the clinical literature, this is called “moral masochism” One caveat: these are rarely conscious choices. These patterns come about unconsciously

1/ Social psychologists long ago proved something utterly terrifying People will disregard WHAT THEY SEE WITH THEIR OWN EYES to conform to what other people say In a classic 1951 experiment by Solomon Asch, people looked at a picture of three lines & were asked to choose which

Dear @INCIndia this poster is breaking all the guidelines to spread awareness/report about death by suicides. Such Visualisation can trigger people living with mental health problems. Please take it down! @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi

Don't know who runs the Social Media handle for @INCIndia but this is terrible way to communicate on suicide. Breaks all national and international guidelines. We would be happy to provide you with advice on how to communicate about suicide. And we don't charge for it!