Is suicide biomechanical?

Yes I think biomechanics will often play a foundational role.

In my early days in this game I spent a lot of time on TMJ Facebook groups. I’m talking about between the years of 2014 - 2017.

I’d get to know a fair number of people through these groups.

Some of them I would even start DMing with and have occasional calls with.

This gave me an opportunity to get to know the type of people suffering from this stuff to a deeper and more personal level.

They’d tell me their stories. The desperation they felt.

I’d get to know them a little bit.

During those early years I had three different people that I used to occasionally message with take their own lives.

I believe at least two of them were under the age of thirty. They had their entire lives in front of them.

But biomechanical collapse got the best of them and they couldn’t handle what it was doing to them. Particularly what it was doing to them mentally.

I’d learned first hand the connection of this stuff to suicide.

And to put it plainly… I’m very confident the connection is very very strong.

Suicide among American youth has been exploding

According to recent data from the World Health Organization, approximately 740,000 deaths from suicide occur annually worldwide – roughly one death every 43 seconds.

In the United States, suicide rates have been increasing, with a particularly alarming rise among youth.

The US has seen an annual increase of 3.8% among males aged 10-24 between 2009-2020 and a shocking 6.7% increase among females in the same age group from 2007-2017.

Age distribution patterns show that more than half of global suicides (56%) occur before age 50.

Why are so many young people giving up on life?

After all.. when you’re a teenager you generally don’t have a lot of financial or job stress as you’re not yet at that stage of your life.

You don’t yet have a lot of traditional ‘responsibilities’ that an adult would have.

But that doesn’t mean you dont have stress from mental health and substance abuse issues.

What are the causes of suicide among our youth?

The three main common reasons given for suicide among American teens are (according to ChatGPT):

• Mental health challenges

• Bullying/Cyberbullying

• Substance abuse

But the question that I think you need to be asking is why are these things increasing?

What is causing more mental health issues among our youth?

When I was a teen in the early 90’s it was almost unheard of for a US teenager to be seeing a psychologist. Nowadays it almost commonplace.

So what happened?

And why are kids bullying each other more? Is it really all to blame on social media?

Also substance abuse has blasted off among this group… particularly things like anti-depressants and opioids.

A study published in Pediatrics analyzed data from 2016 to 2022 and found that the monthly antidepressant dispensing rate for individuals aged 12 to 25 increased by 66.3%, from 2,575 to 4,284 per 100,000 people

So in my view you need to look under the surface of these reasons to understand what is driving those factors. And that is where I think biomechanics comes into play.

I think suicide is often biomechanical

I’ve had the unusual experience of being on either side of the ‘biomechanical fence’ numerous times in the past decade.

And so it gives me a very good vantage point of how things look from either side.

When you are collapsing… the whole world starts to look dark. You are struggling more and more in every aspect of your life just to make by.

Forget thriving… it feels like you are treading water just to survive.

Holding a job down gets harder, maintaining friendships and relationships with loved ones gets harder, your economic resources often are declining… and all of this happens together like a perfect storm.

You lose hope that it will ever get better. That is how I was in mid-2014 when the TMJ dentist in Vietnam drilled my teeth.

It had put me in a rapid biomechanical collapse and my thoughts started to get very dark. I didn’t think i’d ever get out of it.

But luckily i did.

And then when I returned to low points in the years following these dark thoughts returned, but never to the same extent. And the reason for that was that I already knew it could be beaten.

Whereas the first time it happened I just assumed what everyone else assumes… that this is just how life worked out for me and I’m unlikely to ever beat this situation.

These past few years I have gotten to experience what it feels like to come out of collapse more and more with each passing day. I’m in a good mood naturally and I look forward to the future.

I could not imagine taking my own life. It just doesn’t make sense.

I think that a biomechanically healthy human is just programmed by nature to not want to take our own lives. Survival is in our DNA.

When we conquer biomechanics I think we will radically reduce suicide rates

From my own experience and from following these patterns in others for about the past decade I feel quite confident in saying that I think suicide will shrink by default when humanity begins to understand the simple rules of biomechanics that I talk about in my writing.

With biomechanical collapse the skull literally collapses in on the brain and the brain begins to malfunction.

A decline in neurology occurs and this begins to give us dark moods/thoughts, which lead to suicide.

Reverse the collapse and the exact opposite happens in my experience. You start becoming happier by default.

And so as more and more people apply these biomechanics to themselves… suicide rates will plunge I predict.

Closing thoughts

Today I shared a few thoughts on suicide to hopefully light a flame of hope in the folks out there that are struggling.

It’s not your fault.

These thoughts you are having are simply a physical malfunction in the brain in my view. Because the walls of the skull are coming in on it.

And yes it’s going to be multifactorial… but I do think that humans have an amazing ability to withstand high amounts of stress when they are biomechanically healthy.

And they also have an amazing ability to over-inflate stress when they are collapsed.

At least that has been my experience.