«The Effect of Country Music on Suicide»

"The greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate"

According to the authors, Steven Stack and Jim Gundlach, the paper "assesses the link between country music and metropolitan suicide rates. Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link between country music and suicide. Our model explains 51% of the variance in urban white suicide rates."

Alone, at last?

So, tomorrow morning my daughter is leaving. Not just leaving on a trip but leaving to move to Seattle, for good. This is bad. We have been together, basically just her nd I, since before I brought her to the USA from London 18 years ago. We have gone through hell together and had the best fun. We have never been apart.

She is my daughter, my friend, my co party animal and I am going to miss her more than I can put into words. I am also somewhat concerned as to how I am going to live, as she has also been there to put the brakes on my behavior. Those brakes are now gone. She was the only thing keeping me in check, and reminding me that some things are not such a great idea to do.

I am a moron and have no self control, common sense or people skills. Hopefully I won't just succumb to my depression, which I have also found easy to control for years without meds or any help at all.

I feel like I might crash and burn, or I might find this is the best time of my life.

I am slightly lost at the moment. A feeling I have rarely had in my life, and have not had at all for 20 something years. I don't like it.

Ugh.

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