Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Most important misunderstanding

I think most important misunderstanding is on 3 words in this myth – ONLY, DEPRESSED and SUICIDE. Without looking at whole sentence, we still could get what it means by just looking at those 3 words. This is what I see by those 3 words, ONLY DEPRESSED PEOPLE SUICIDE. I think it is easy to get people towards this myth because of the assertive words which could lead people assume people who commit suicide are all deeply depressed people.
By thinking this myth, it has big impact to the society. Since this myth has been widely spread, people may concern more on the people who are diagnosed with depression. However, they neglect other people such as drug abusers and alcoholisms who also need care. When people have confirmation bias, they just keep their eyes on those people with depression. Besides, they hardly see there are other people commit suicide because of other reasons by confirmation bias. Is that a good sign to hold such affirmative belief? Definitely not.

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