Reply #45: Oh, my horse ain't that high.

[nolabear]

Maybe you saw "back up your statements" as an implication that you had done something wrong when I just meant it as a statement. I just wondered what you meant by "stable" and threw out some thoughts myself. You can talk to be or be mad; your choice.

You are right, as far as I know, that psychiatrists commit suicide on the high side of the average. And so do lots of other professions, many of which are helping professions with too little support. From what I hear I do imagine Hasan had some underlying pathology and that it's likely the stories he heard plus the possibiity that he's gotten some frightening attention for being Muslim (and I can't help but wonder how hard it would be to be a Muslim doing counseling with soldiers who had just seen terrible violence done to their friends by Muslims) pushed him over some edge he was already too near. It's very, very complex and extremely compelling.

Peace?