Having read this story of Morgan Leslie Segal, i am wondering if the suicide bombers are abnormal people who suffer from psychological problems.Killing innocents is the biggest crime and sins that causes God wrath since it saddens people and shatters their happiness. Indeed, their grief reults from the loss of their beloved and properties and this unacceptable act. May God make up for them , bless them and have mercy on dead innocent people.
Let look at this article
In 1996, SSRI antidepressant medications were considered perfectly safe by the FDA. Now, these very popular drugs are required to carry a warning:
“Antidepressants increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders . . . ”
Unfortunately, these warnings came too late for our daughter, Morgan Leslie Segal, who died in 1996 at the age of 29. For six years, she grappled with a condition that started as low self-esteem and worsened into major depression. During this period she was given a variety of SSRI and other medications. She stuck with a single therapeutic mode and her prescribed medications even though the combination seemed to just make her worse. Finally in desperation, she attempted suicide twice; the second time she succeeded.
Her father Robert shared the tragedy of Morgan’s death with our Santa Monica Rotary Club. Later the Club President appointed Robert chair of a new mental health committee which met monthly. Out of those meetings the seed of an idea was born – a website that that would provide information and resources to help people in need.
Helpguide was born of the conviction that “health literacy” is vital. We believe that Morgan's tragedy could have been avoided if she had had easy access to good non-biased information on her condition and various alternatives for treatment.
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- Robert and Jeanne Segal
About Morgan Leslie Segal
Leslie Segal was a middle child, the peacemaker. She was quiet and gentle with compassion that encompassed anyone and anything that was troubled or hurting. In high school she first found her voice as a writer for the school paper and yearbook staff. In her college years she fell in love with the Spanish language and traveled to Washington, DC as an intern for the Latino Congressional Caucus.
She visited a dozen countries with the Semester at Sea program. A year later traveling with a friend she backpacked through Eastern Europe indulging her talent as a photographer taking intimate detailed and revealing photos of young and old alike.
In her mid twenties the life that was soaring began to falter. She changed her name to Morgan - "woman of the sea.” She almost completed a graduate psychology program, but decided she preferred writing and left to attend Sarah Lawrence College. Later she became a feature writer for the USC Daily Trojan and a literary magazine.
Though Morgan continued to grow as a writer, she increasingly lost touch with herself and retreated from those who loved her, finally ending her life shortly after her 29th birthday.
About Morgan's Voice
After her death, we found her laptop computer containing a collection of her personal poems and stories. This led to the publication of Morgan's Voice.
" … She wrote whimsy as well as she wrote tense and somber drama, reflecting elements of herself, as a writer must, in such a way as to reveal both the light and the shadows that alternately brightened and darkened her soul. In this wonderful book her genius emerges in careful stages and we are at one with a soaring talent which, like a bird in flight, fell too soon to the earth below "
Al Martinez - Columnist, Los Angeles Times
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http://www.helpguide.org/segals.htm
Er, as best I can see this poor woman seems to have had a profile that was nothing like that of your average suicide bomber...
Which isn't to deny that many suicide bombers are psychologically disturbed. I haven't really been following the underpants bomber story, but has any more about his motives and what led him to radical Islam surfaced?
A really touching story. How can a prospering European woman, who obviously did not grow up with Islam or any other religion close to radical strategies (not that I wanted to say that Islam is radical in general, of course!), become a suicide bomber? I cannot understand! This can not only have been due to SSRI, can it?
Let me get this right. You cannot understand how a prosperous European woman can become a radicalized suicide bomber on behalf of Islam, but you are also unwilling to entertain the effect, nature and scope of Islam that breeds such a mind set? Can you not conceive there might be some high risk aspects of Islamic teaching that leads 7% of the world's Muslims into a state of mind that sympathizes with suicide bombings as a means of fullfilling Allah's will? If not, you've become part of the problem.
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