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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 430041" data-attributes="member: 1211">I think it's so ridicolous when media are trying to blame a suicide or tragedy just one isolated thing. A kid who chosed a computer game over the rest of the life used it as a way of escapism to get away from a real life that wasnt worth much to him. Would the mother admit this? No chance in hell that she would (at least not as recently as a year after the suicide), she will of course blame everything else. What had she and the father done?Sometimes parents do bad things to their children, not out of "evilness", but out of misguided love and crappy social talent. Combine this with a low social standing in the environments the kid is hanging out in, and his self esteem will go down. To escape reallity, the kid finds something; drugs, alcohole, gambling, everquest, sniping, D&D or whatever, but they all fill the same role: an escape from a reallity that has been really bad to him. He notices that the game (in his case) aint nothing but a shadow substitute for a real social life, and in a fit of extreme depression he takes the final step and ends a tormented existance. This has been done a hundred times with gambling and drugs without news channels doing coverages on it. But for some reason, people dont want to have the truth. I cant see why, while facing the truth would help all the victims of this kind more then banning their refuge.I'm almost sure that I know how the boy's (man's? I dont know how old he was) mind worked when he killed himself, while I was on the same path once, with a self esteem at zero and a total incapability to handle my own situation, caused by and combined with the early loss of my mother and being picked on in school. Now when Im out of it I see people that are now what I was like then, and the total lack of understanding of the cause.Sorry if I was ranting, but I just get so mad when I see media making cash on these tragedies. You could get communist for less.</blockquote>

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