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And the Coyotes will defuse the traps with a fraction of the cost.

Okay, here’s the thing about death. Everything about death is expressed in the negative.

There’s no boredom
There’s no excitement
There’s no joy
There’s no pain
There’s no frustration
There’s no elation
There’s no disappointment
There’s no surprise
There’s no bewilderment
There’s no love
There’s no conflict
There’s no violence
There’s no resolution
There’s no reconciliation
There’s no forgiveness
There’s no vengeance\

There’s no you. Your story ends.

As it is right now the world sucks. There’s a lot of misery and a lot of people are choosing to check out (Around 40K per year in the US succeed. We guess about 120K more try and end up in the ER.)

If you cash in, everyone you know is going to be shaken. They’ll all have to deal with the sneaking suspicion they are personally at fault for you choosing to quit. A suicide note won’t help. It’s not a rational belief. Even little kids will wonder if they did something (or failed to do something) to change your fate.

Anyone who depends on you, even if just for emotional support will go into crisis. Unless you’re a hermit in the Yukon, this is more people than you think.

Family may try to deny it. They will make up stories about how you were coerced or secretly murdered or drugged to diminished capacity. If they cannot deny it, they’ll be ashamed and try to cover up your suicide, suggesting maybe you perished by accident.

Police will resent the job of telling professionals who engage you (doctors, therapists, teachers, etc.)

Alt-righters will revel in your expiration.

Elected officials will feign concern. The ones attached to your district will wish you moved first. White Christian Nationalist officials and Freedom Caucas officials will presume you’re one of the degenerates who are on their target list, and your action affirms you knew they were right.

Most Christians will assert you are damned to Hell.

Mostly it’s a shit show, and a bunch of statistical counters will increment by one.

Consider crisis counseling, maybe. If you’re in a developed country, your county probably has a hotline or chat.

Witches and Nuns have pocket secrets. And secret pockets!

So a couple of notes from the clinical end regarding split-personality / MPD, etc.

Firstly, the current (DSM V) diagnosis is Disassociative Identity Disorder based on the controversial notion that all the individuals within a single mind are part of a whole. As with prior interpretations, this remains controversial but is the bleeding edge of psychological theory so far.

Secondly, modern medical-model psychology depends on the standard of dysfunction to decide if a mental illness necessitates treatment. I think (not sure) its related to a study of patients who hear voices compared to patients who hear God (whether it’s actually God is irrelevant.) The latter group was happy to have that voice, and found it comforting while most of the former group were happy for medications that quieted or silenced the voices.

That said, the psychiatric sector in the US (and I think the developed world) is required by law to get a patient’s consent for treatment or assess they are a danger to themselves or others by a psychiatrist (in the case of involuntary committal) Yes, this is a power that is sometimes abused, say when billionaires want their gay son to be less gay.

Kids in the US have fewer rights and protections, largely because a parental signature can bypass direct consent, which is a problem when parents are not fully interested in the child’s autonomy and well-being, or is just credulous of medical professionals.

But it means for the rest of us grownups, if you like the demons that possess your mind (or at least have come to terms with them), you don’t have to accept treatment to get them exorcised. Also, there are plenty of treatment-resistant diagnoses (👋major depression over here) that cannot be cured by normal psycho therapy, and the best we can hope for is management, so coming to terms with our personal demons.

Lemme toss in here the symptom management checklist in DBT:

• Take your meds on time, as per directed.
• Sleep eight hours a day (or the amount that works for you.)
• Eat square meals on a consistent schedule. Most of us work with three, with light snacking. Stay fluidated.
• Get some exercise, a bit of moving about should do (say a walk around the block).
• Engage in some social contact, ideally with a friend or loved one with whom you’re not dealing with immediate drama.

Doing these things consistently should reduce the likelihood of your symptoms getting unmanageable (mileage will vary).

At the federal and state levels, we knowingly vote against King Heron so he doesn’t eat all the frogs. (That is, we vote against Republicans who are actively working to neuter democracy).

Getting social safety net stuff, justice reform or even election reform will require grassroots pressure bigger than yhe George Floyd / BLM protests.

And without those things, instead were going to get genocide politics and civil war.

I can’t help but wonder what happens to girls 15 and under when they get UTIs. Insurance company says sucks to be a girl?

So there’s a catch after all.

If you’re concerned about Chinese spyware, You might want to also be concerned about US spyware as well. The US justice complex is not a friend to the US public, nor is the US national security complex.