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To study the emotional balance structure of mental states in suicide notes we start by building a signed network from the CO network (see “ Materials and methods” section); then we evaluate its triad frequency and degree of balance—i. We use structural balance theory 32 to assess the degree of balance in the network and determine how valence is organized among neighboring words. The core actors and themes involved are self and others and relations of love (or lack thereof), taking/giving, going and telling. Her last words on camera: “In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in ‘blood and guts’, and in living color, you are going to see another first — attempted suicide. A suicide message can be in any form or medium, but the most common methods are by a written note, an audio message, or a video.

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To assess the degree of balance of the CO network we assign signs to edges based on the presence of negative and positive sentiment labels of words (see Fig. Focus here is given to reconstructing the collective mindset as expressed in the last written words left by people who committed suicide.Our network approach enriched with linguistic annotations identified “love” in suicide notes as being attributed to the same positive connotations as appear in common language, but also imbued with a sense of sadness. Pairs which may be expected to be typical for suicide notes such as “i-you”, “i-love”, “love-you” and “go-i” occupy the top of the plot. We observe that the overall degree of balance and the frequency of \(\{+,+,+\}\) triads in the CO network and its configuration models are much higher than for the label-shuffled networks (Fig.

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That is, the individual may be driven to associate positive concepts with one another more readily than they would in a free association context (such as mind-wandering in the absence of suicidal ideation) to increase the salience and accessibility of positive-affective information. The results indicate that the emotional structure of conceptual associations in suicide notes is more compartmentalized where the all-positive triads ( \(\{+,+,+\}\)) are most frequent. These words indicate that suicide notes are not explicitly dominated by concepts directly related to suicide, as none of the 40 top-ranked concepts reported in Table 1 (SI) are directly related to suicide or death in general. A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. Having spent 40 hours inside a bunker with his newly wedded wife, Eva Braun, Hitler realized that there was no escape from the Red Army.We evaluate triad frequency in the signed CO and FA networks and evaluate their statistical significance when compared with two null models. Katzrupus (Jeff refers to him as “Cat Poop”) and holding himself aloof from the four other patients. All this is brought to us with insight, respect, and dignity, without losing interpretative and critical power.

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own strengths emerge: his characterizations run deep, and without too much contrivance the teens' interactions slowly dislodge clues about what triggered Jeff's suicide attempt. As a result, the topology of the network is determined primarily by a few hubs, in particular personal pronouns. Similarly, what sorts of thoughts and feelings does one encounter when experiencing suicidal ideation?The second comparison is obtained by label-shuffling, which altered the location and local degree of words of different valence while keeping the empirical structure fixed. They forget all the mental struggles the person faced because the were invisible and sometimes unspoken and unexposed to anyone. It might be a little morbid and inhuman to consider a suicide note as a piece of literature but Virginia Woolf’s last letter was no less than one.