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Re:Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival by hiram112 on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:52AM (#20552069)
You'd think that once VR got to such an advanced state, we'd have already long before synthesized effective medications / electrical-magnetic therapies (e.g. shock therapy or TMS) to effectively treat depression enough that the VR suicide simulation would be pointless.

OTOH, the most effective treatments we have for depression are almost a century old, have tons of awful side effects, and were discovered by accident (i.e. MAOIs and electroconvulsive therapy), so I'm not too optimistic in the pharmaceutical and psychiatric industries.

Re:Suicide Attempters’ Long-Term Survival by trevyn on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:22AM (#20553081)
Suicidality does not imply depression: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116433/