Note: tight fascia with trigger points inside _cannot_ be released by stretching alone. Source: personal focus of finding why the hell my posture was crooked after falling off bike; after 3 years of weekly massages my therapist and me finally found a huge trigger point in a thigh. It took one-two weeks to release fully, and then my posture magically straightened.
People swear by trigger points , and as it is a relatively recent discovery, not every massage therapist knows about them.
Also make sure to get a good therapist. I had somebody do trigger point therapy with me for a few months and had zero improvements while the sessions were very painful every time.
I smell bullshit. After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year. Thankfully one can’t get a gun easily in Europe, otherwise I won’t probably be writing this... and I haven’t experienced even an appetite loss, not saying about social etc. After SSRIs I’m not that anymore, but I’m still ready to give up at first chance, just I know at worst I lose a job and a house. But death.. for good or bad, it doesn’t work that way.
I don't mean to dismiss your experience, but this is such a super-tunnel vision point of view there's nothing here to gain. Your sample-size is one person, and for some reason you bring up gun control laws, which changes the course of discussion.
Of course many people with depression don't just die of being depressed. That's not what this article is describing.
Depression isn't severe trauma. Severe trauma can cause depression, and what's explained here, is that it can cause death by psychosomatic cause.
>After my own trauma I went to sleep with a prayer “please god don’t wake me up the next day”, for a year.
Well, what one consciously expresses is not always a match for their inner state.
Second, it's another thing to say "oh god, take me now" than to consider yourself as nearing death. One is a kind of negative wish, while the other is how you view yourself objectively to be going to.
Besides, biological processes are not physical laws. They are statistical phenomena, and people can differ. It's what happens in the aggregate and for most that's examined. In that sense, a counter-example is not enough to take down the phenomenon.
People swear by trigger points , and as it is a relatively recent discovery, not every massage therapist knows about them.