Iowa town struggles with mental health awareness Suicide in Fairfield: Iowa town struggles with mental health awareness - Little Village http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/ http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/ Suicide in Fairfield: Iowa town struggles with mental he... http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/ When you live in a small town, you have a connection to just about everyone. With a recent string of suicides in my community in Fairfield, Iowa, it has felt person... View on littlevillagemag.com http://littlevillagemag.com/suicide-in-fairfield-iowa-town-struggles-with-mental-health-awareness/ Preview by Yahoo
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : In communal meditating Fairfield, Iowa finding cultural expectations for high achievement through perfection-isms and possibly finding exhibited distress ('behavioral dysfunction') like with Silicon Valley kids, in anecdote some meditating kids in Fairfield, Iowa may have been examples of cultural high pressures in achievement this way too. With Silicon Valley kids evidently it is around producing material wealth, with meditating kids who may individually strive for what is held out formatively as a perfect coined, “The Whole Enchilada” as an all of an all of perfect health, perfect education, perfect design, ideal society, 'number-one' spiritual experiences, and fortune-making. One might expect to find feelings of dissonance with reality and find distress. Would make an interesting study in social science. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : MSAE School Anthem Fortunate are we to be born at a time such as this Diving deep within the self we know that life is bliss All the world we see, in the light of the unified field As we grow in unity the truth of life’s revealed So we give thanks for the gift of this knowledge Heaven sent And sing the praise of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment Education is ideal, when the knower, known, and knowing unite Three in one reality makes learning pure delight. Nature must be pleased, as a witness to wisdom’s rebirth Young enlightened sages bringing peace to all on earth So we give thanks, for the gift, of this knowledge Heaven sent and sing the praise, of Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment https://superradiance.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/msae-school-anthem/ ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Is there an abnormal behavior dysfunction clustering in meditating kids, or meditators? Evidently there was a small cluster a couple of years ago in suicide that possibly [anecdotal] had some commonalities of pressure and depression within it similar to the Silicon Valley cluster. The aggregate numbers do not show meditators, kids or adults, as a whole to be outlaying from averages. Suicide happens on average throughout the Fairfield/Jefferson County, Iowa community in sub-groups evidently across demographic boundaries for varying and individual reasons. See the links further below to public health stats. However, reading The Silicon Valley Suicides article points out some similar pressures related to perfectionism and cultural expectations of achievement that may be similarly peculiar to aspects of the meditating community in Jefferson County, Iowa. Would make an interesting study. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Read through these excerpts about the Silicon Valley Kids and substitute the word, “meditator” for the word “affluent” as used in the article. Substitute “Non-meditator” for “poor”, and substitute “Meditator” for “Rich”. One can come to see some cultural parallels in striving for achievement with perfectionism that can shake out as distressed feelings and behaviors. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Excerpts: "..a presentation on affluent youth as a largely unrecognized at-risk group. Her research suggests a U shaped curve in pathologies among children, by class. At each extreme—poor and rich—kids are showing unusually high rates of dysfunction. On the surface, the rich kids seem to be thriving. They have cars, nice clothes, good grades, easy access to health care, and, on paper, excellent prospects. But many of them are not navigating adolescence successfully. ..One of the two major causes of distress, Luthar found, was the “pressure to excel at multiple academic and extracurricular pursuits. In one study, for example, kids were asked to choose and rank their parents’ top five values, from a list of 10. Half of the values were related to achievement (“attend a good college,” “make a lot of money,” “excel academically”), and the other half to well-being and personal character (“are honest,” “are kind to others,” “are generally happy with yourself and your life”). When the kids chose a greater number of achievement-related goals, that usually correlated with personal troubles, Luthar said. From their answers, Luthar constructed a profile of elite American adolescents whose self-worth is tied to their achievements and who see themselves as catastrophically flawed if they don’t meet the highest standards of success. The yardstick for the children of the meritocratic elite is different, and it can intimidate as much as it can empower. The second major cause of distress that Luthar identified was perhaps more surprising: Affluent kids felt remarkably isolated from their parents. The kids in the affluent communities she studied felt their parents to be no more available to them, either emotionally or physically, than the kids in severe poverty did. Now, she reports, the teenagers have no sense of agency. They still complain bitterly about all the same things, but they feel they have no choice. Many have also fallen prey to what Levine calls a “mass delusion” that there is but one path to a successful life, and that it is very narrow." From the Link below to The Silicon Valley Suicides ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Vulnerability Trending: Kids of the Higher and 'elite' income classes become high ranked (vulnerable) with behavior dysfunction (distress) as with the poorest of kids, but differently in their own case because of their peculiar 'elite' group cultural pressures for producing and showing individual perfectionism and achievement. That level of materialism does not seem very 'spiritual' or healthy. The Silicon Valley Suicides http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ The Silicon Valley Suicides http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ Why are so many kids with bright prospects killing themselves in Palo Alto? View on www.theatlantic.com http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-silicon-valley-suicides/413140/ Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Jefferson County, Iowa is relatively a little above the national average by stats. About average? By State: QuickStats: Age-Adjusted* Suicide† Rates, by State§ — United States, 2012 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm QuickStats: Age-Adjusted* Suicide† Rates, by State§... http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm * Age-adjusted rates per 100,000 based on the 2000 U.S. standard population. Populations used for computing death rates are postcensal estimates based o... View on www.cdc.gov http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm Preview by Yahoo By County Iowa Suicide http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/iowa-suicide http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/iowa-suicide Iowa Suicide http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/iowa-suicide Discover Suicide rankings for all Iowa counties and all magor causes of death. View on www.worldlifeexpect... http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/iowa-suicide Preview by Yahoo The C.D.C. reported last year that Wyoming has the highest suicide rate in the nation http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6345a10.htm, almost 30 deaths per 100,000 people in 2012, far above the national average of 12.6 per 100,000. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : "Although imbalances between city and country have long persisted, “we weren’t expecting that the disparities would be increasing over time, .." “The rates are higher, and the gap is getting wider.” "Suicide is a threat not just to the young. Rates over all rose 7 percent in metropolitan counties from 2004 to 2013 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6414a9.htm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In rural counties, the increase was 20 percent." "The problem reaches across demographic boundaries, encompassing such groups as older men, Native Americans and veterans. .." Small Towns Face Rising Suicide Rates http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/small-towns-face-rising-suicide-rates.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/small-towns-face-rising-suicide-rates.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=1 Small Towns Face Rising Suicide Rates http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/small-towns-face-rising-suicide-rates.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=1 People living in rural areas kill themselves far more often than those in urban settings. One reason: poor access to mental health care. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/small-towns-face-rising-suicide-rates.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=1 Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : "Although imbalances between city and country have long persisted, “we weren’t expecting that the disparities would be increasing over time, .." “The rates are higher, and the gap is getting wider.” "Suicide is a threat not just to the young. Rates over all rose 7 percent in metropolitan counties from 2004 to 2013 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6414a9.htm, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In rural counties, the increase was 20 percent." "The problem reaches across demographic boundaries, encompassing such groups as older men, Native Americans and veterans. .." (Message over 64 KB, truncated)