
Kurt Cobain and “Copycat Suicide”
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The Family Annihilator
The family annihilator is the technical term for that. John List was very deeply in debt and couldn't allow his family to find out about that. Kurt Cobain found like a pirated tape of it at a thrift store and he was obsessed with it. There are people who just get depressed and they're bummed, they don't leave the bed and that's fine. And then there's people that get really depressed and they think there's no way out. It's only going to get worse. I feel trapped. The sense of being trapped is a predictor of suicide kind of separate from depression itself. You should be able to cover your mental illness on par with your physical illness
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