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Dark empty room at blue hour. An open window with curtains stirring outward. A wooden chair beside it. The words "I QUIT" scrawled on the wall in dripping dark red paint.

Dark empty room at blue hour. An open window with curtains stirring outward. A wooden chair beside it. The words "I QUIT" scrawled on the wall in dripping dark red paint.

When the Mind Cannot Stay, Part One: A Psychological Anatomy of Suicide

A criminological analysis of the psychology of suicide, from Shneidman's psychache to Joiner's three elements. Part One of two, by Karma Gray. The person who dies by suicide is almost never a person who wants to die. They are a person who, in a brief window of consciousness, has lost the ability to stay.

Karma Gray

Apr 217 min read

Streaming interface overlaid on a crime scene illustrating the sensationalisation of true crime content by The Crime Ledger

Streaming interface overlaid on a crime scene illustrating the sensationalisation of true crime content by The Crime Ledger

Sensationalization of True Crime: The Industry's Human Cost

Violent crime in the United States has fallen 49% since 1993. Yet 77% of Americans believe it is rising. That gap is not ignorance — it is a product of a multibillion-dollar industry that packages real suffering as entertainment. From Netflix recreating a victim's courtroom breakdown without her consent, to a $10 million defamation verdict against a TikTok user who accused an innocent professor of murder, the cost of sensationalised true crime is measurable and growing.

Karma Gray

Apr 1310 min read

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