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NCSU WOLFPACK FAMILY DEALING WITH ANOTHER STUDENT'S DEATH SUICIDE, 4TH IN 2022

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Friday, word quickly got around the NC State campus about another student's death by suicide.

It is the fourth one this year for the Wolfpack family. The student was found dead in a residence hall.

"When I heard about the first one, it really hit. Another one happened. Then another happened and one happened yesterday. I don't know what to do anymore," said senior student Jodie Horne.

The university identified the student as a male living in the Wolf Village Apartments. Students are devastated about the loss, but told ABC11 it's the academic pressure that's causing the distress.

"I know that's one of the things that bothers me a lot. So I understand where that struggle comes from. The need to succeed is big pressure," said Alessandro Dal Pra, a chemical engineering major.

It's something that has students on campus talking. When things gets tough Aaron Hills finds ways to relieve the pressure.

"I just keep going. Try not to stay stagnate. I go to the gym or find something to do," said Hills a computer science major.

WakeMed psychologist Dr. Jessica Tomasula says it's important to identify these signs if someone is struggling.

"It's fantastic if college students can relieve that pressure in healthy ways," she said. "Being able to understand hopelessness when you hear it, lack of belonging and feeling like a burden to others."

NC State held a Wellness Day last Thursday, which gave the campus community time to check in with their family and friends, but students say they need more support.

"Everything we missed on that one day had to be made up at a later day. Everything felt more rushed the week after we had our first Wellness Day," said Dal Pra.

Pra talking about the campus-wide wellness day. No classes were held as students were given the time to look after their mental health. The university provided a bevy of resources, including counselors for students and staff.

The wellness day was created after students started a petition for monthly wellness days not long after the third student's death. Within 24 hours the petition exceeded the goal of 2,500 signatures.

Suicide is the number 2 cause of death for college students, according to a national college health risk behavior survey.

Senior Lilly Wallace started a petition to get more mental health days; hoping for maybe one a month or even more of a break to be an actual break versus having to study during that break. She said the transition to college has been made that much harder because of the pandemic

"I just keep seeing that people are saying they can't imagine how their families feel, I can't imagine how their classmates and friends feel, can't be any worse than this," Wallace said. "I don't think that this is a perfect solution and I don't know if there is a perfect solution but I think it's a step in the right direction."

Iman Hosseini is a Sophomore from Botswana. He said he deferred coming to NC State for a year because he didn't want to be in Raleigh learning online. Hosseini said his professors delayed assignments from this week to next because of the tragedy this week.

"As a society, as a school as we're moving forward things are in place to help our us. When something like happens, it's unfortunate and sad," he said. "That social interaction is a key part of the learning process to be in class to ask the questions right so it can definitely have an impact."

NC State released this statement about the news of another student's death:
"Words can't express how sad and difficult this is for our students and campus. The university is pouring every resource we have available into reaching our students in need and providing them support and guidance. Our staff and medical professionals are working around the clock to help steer students to the many resources currently available, and we've asked our new student mental health task force to develop additional short-term and long-term strategies to help our students.

If you are concerned about a student, colleague or friend, please review this information from NC State Prevention Services. You can also make an online referral for a student or employee you are concerned about."

According to NC State's Counseling Center, 27 percent of students report being so depressed in the past year that it was difficult to function. Students on campus Saturday evening said the academic pressure is getting to some of their classmates.

"I think a lot of it comes down to making sure that you prioritize your own needs. And like if you have to put that over academic, and that's what you have to do. But it is a really hard choice because especially in today's climate, like, academics is really a necessity in today's especially if you're looking for a career post-college," Chloe Leffler said.

The University provided this list of resources available now to students

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American Scientists Discovered the Great Secret of Karma

When it comes to the law of cause and effect, people will nod in agreement, because the material world has laws, so whether it is the law of cause and effect in the theoretical world or the natural world, people agree: if you keep dumping dirt, it will pollute the water source, and cutting down trees will cause sand and soil loss... …But some people are skeptical about some causal cycle laws that cannot be directly observed by the naked eye. The law of cause and effect is not unique to religion. Whether it is evidence-based medicine, quantum mechanics, or spiritual science, it is inseparable from the law of cause and effect, but everyone has different degrees of importance. Cause and effect are multi-faceted, multi-level, and multi-type, some visible and some invisible. Human beings cannot deny some truths because they are invisible, just as we cannot deny the existence of electromagnetic waves because they cannot be seen. We can only say that we do not have the wisdom to understand them.

A joint study by Cardiff University and the University of Texas, two universities in the United Kingdom and the United States, shows that "what goes around comes around" has a scientific basis. Statistics have found that although juvenile offenders are often physically stronger than law-abiding teenagers of the same age, their health declines rapidly when they enter middle age, and the risk of hospitalization and disability is many times higher than that of normal people. This is relatively easy to understand, and it is likely to be related to the prisoner's bad living habits and psychological state.

Scientists have discovered such a phenomenon in the field of neurochemical research: when people have kind thoughts and positive thinking, the body will secrete neurotransmitters that make cells healthy, and immune cells will also become active, making people less likely to get sick. When righteous thoughts always exist, the human immune system will be strong; and when there are malicious and negative thoughts in the heart, the opposite nervous system is used: that is, the negative system is stimulated and activated, while the positive system is suppressed, and a virtuous cycle of body functions will be destroyed. Therefore, kind and honest people tend to live longer and healthier.

At the same time, a magazine in the United States once published a research report entitled "Bad Mood Produces Toxins", which stated: "Experiments in psychological laboratories have shown that our human evil thoughts can cause physiological changes in chemical substances. , produces a toxin in the blood. When a person exhales into an ice cup under a normal state of mind, what condenses is a colorless and transparent substance; The objects in the body will show different colors, and through chemical analysis, we know that people's negative thoughts will cause toxins in people's body fluids."

Recently, Yale University and the University of California jointly studied the topic of "how social relations affect human mortality". The workers randomly selected 7,000 people and conducted a nine-year follow-up survey. The statistical study found that people who are willing to help others and get along with others The health status and life expectancy of people who are harmonious are significantly better than those who are often malicious, narrow-minded, and self-interested, and the mortality rate of the latter is 1.5 to 2 times higher than that of normal people. The same conclusion was drawn among people of different races, classes, and fitness habits, so scientists announced the research results-doing good deeds can prolong people's lifespan.

More and more different experiments have come to the same conclusion, that is, a pure, benevolent, and positive state of mind can make life healthy and joyful, while evil thoughts can make the body tissue unbalanced and diseased. This is a discovery in the field of physiology and medicine, and these have been systematically described in ancient Chinese books thousands of years ago. For example, Confucius said that "the benevolent man has longevity", and the ancient medical books said that "righteousness exists within, and evil cannot be done" and so on. Our thoughts radiate out, so that our voices, body fluids, actions, and even used items will carry our own energy field. Blessing consecration is also the same principle. Therefore, when we come into contact with bad things, such as theft, indecent rape and other negative content, it is likely that we also have this element in our hearts, but we did not pay attention to it, and did not deal with it, thus radiating such spiritual energy Go out, inspire or infect people and things around you.

Atheists often say that this is just a suggestion of psychological consciousness. Morality is formulated by people themselves. There is no fixed standard, and there is no fixed standard for good and evil. Good people and bad people are also defined by people themselves. If a person does not grow up under the influence of this artificial morality, he will not have such a sense of guilt that affects human health. However, the fact is just the opposite. The latest research by scientists has found that good and evil have different energy frequencies and have different material characteristics; babies who have just been born and have not been educated by concepts have a kind nature; No matter how stable the mood is, there will be involuntary changes in the physiological state, and all of them can be monitored by sophisticated lie detectors-the human body seems to be operating according to certain objective characteristics, and does not depend on the state of the person's thoughts.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the research on the form of water crystals that caused a sensation all over the world showed that everything has animism, and the heaven and earth have their own characteristics. Good and evil seem to have objective standards in nature, and they are not illusory concepts created by humans. When the water comes into contact with benign information such as compassion, fraternity, happiness, and encouragement, or in a wonderful music field, the water crystals will present a gorgeous, wonderful and firm shape; and if the water comes into contact with negative information, The structure of water crystals will be mutated, distorted, or even completely scattered and unable to form. Water is the source of life, and more than 70% of the substances in the human body are water. When people are in different states, their body functions will undergo similar changes.

At the end of the 20th century, the booming studies of "near-death experience" and "hypnotic retrospective past life" have brought information to the world: the cycle of life, other dimensions, karma and retribution, and even heaven and hell originally existed. If a person does bad deeds and treats others badly, if he fails to "repay it now" in this life, he will probably continue to repay it in the next life until the karma is repaid. Even the role played by this person after reincarnation is also different from The accumulation of karma in previous lives is directly related. This is just like an old Chinese saying, "Good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil; it's not that if you don't repay, the time has not yet come; when the time comes, you will repay everything." This is not illusory preaching. There are many real examples in history and reality, which reflect each other with today's scientific evidence.

Why do people suffer retribution after doing bad things? Behind the appearance of this material world, is there an invisible hand of good fortune that is arranging all this? The ancients said, "The sky's net is fully restored, and it is not leaking", "Good and evil If there is no reward, there must be selfishness in the universe.” The law of the universe’s operation is fair, which is the guarantee for the stable and balanced operation of all substances, so that the good will be rewarded and the bad will be rewarded. But why do people who have done bad things have to suffer disasters and tribulations? Why do good people get good things instead of bad people? Does this reveal a bigger fact: behind the material world there are inherent laws or The characteristic of operation exists, and "goodness" just fits with this characteristic, so it lasts for a long time, while "evil" is easy to perish because it violates the characteristics of the universe and the fundamental law of the universe. good man".

Modern empirical science is very particular about evidence, and people will recognize and understand something only when there are a lot of scientific evidence. Therefore, many traditions left over from a long time ago have repeatedly been excluded and dissented by human beings due to the limitations of scientific exploration methods. Good and evil are rewarded as one example. (Note from the author: The pitiful thing about human beings is that sometimes the left-brain thinking is too biased. You must have evidence before you are willing to accept something, otherwise you will adopt an attitude of avoidance or denial. This is like "I don't want to eat something I haven't eaten "The same, how ignorant it is. Many traditional things have deteriorated under the evolution of history. Even ancient high-tech civilizations will be misinterpreted by archaeology and become backward primitive civilizations, let alone those from smarter and more civilized civilizations. Product—traditional culture. Why don’t we accept it humbly and easily adopt an attitude of denial?)

Although for thousands of years, good and evil are rewarded have been widely circulated among the people in the form of word of mouth. Even though many books, such as "The Way of Collecting Blessings and Eliminating Disasters" and "Yinhualu" have recorded a large number of detailed examples, which can prove the authenticity of good and evil, but how the intermediate process works is difficult for people to accept. and understanding. After all, no one can see the transformation relationship of the process, only the result of retribution.

From the perspective of modern science and medicine, Stephen Post, a professor of bioethics at Case Western Reserve University in the United States, and Jill Naymark, what can be produced between "paying" and "returning" for all kinds of good deeds towards people This relationship has been studied in depth.

The researchers developed a detailed measurement table, tracked some people who are willing to give for a long time, and conducted physical statistics and physiological analysis on the "return" brought by each "pay" by category, thus revealing the "medical treatment" produced by "pay". Function" and "happiness index": People who "have a kind heart and are willing to do good deeds" will indeed have a huge and far-reaching impact on their own mental and physical health: their own social ability, judgment ability, positive emotions, and mentality will all be comprehensive. promote. Even a knowing smile to others and a friendly and humorous expression, these simple actions will cause the concentration of immunoglobulin in saliva to increase.

After they synthesized more than 100 research results of more than 40 major American universities, and combined with the data shown in the long-term follow-up experiment report, they came up with surprising news: people's kind behaviors, such as praise, forgiveness, Courage, humor, respect, sympathy, loyalty, etc., the giving of these behaviors shows: "There is a magical energy conversion secret between giving and rewarding, that is, when a person is giving, the energy of returning is returning to this person in various forms." , but in most cases, I don't know it..."

Scientists have also discovered such a phenomenon in the field of neurochemical research: when people have kind thoughts and positive thinking, the human body will secrete neurotransmitters that make cells healthy, and immune cells will also become active, making people less likely to get sick. When righteous thoughts always exist, the human immune system will be strong; and when there are malicious and negative thoughts in the heart, the opposite nervous system is used: that is, the negative system is stimulated and activated, while the positive system is suppressed, and a virtuous cycle of body functions will be destroyed.

In fact, the ancient Chinese medical masterpiece "Huangdi Neijing" said: "Quietness will keep the spirit, dryness will perish." Tranquility refers to keeping one's spirit and emotions in a state of indifference and tranquility, with a quiet look and no distracting thoughts, which can achieve the purpose of retaining true energy and peace of mind. In fact, the meaning of stillness is very broad. It is not simply standing still, but human thoughts and behaviors. When they are impacted by external factors, they can have an open-minded mind to tolerate and understand, instead of immediately entering a state of hot war and fighting with each other. . Modern scientific research shows that after a person enters meditation, the brain can return to the brain wave state of childhood, making aging temporarily "reversed".

Judging from these scientific studies, good and evil are rewarded, which has surpassed the life value orientation advocated by theism, and is the law of the development and survival of the entire human being on this basis. These scientific studies have also confirmed from the side that the belief of the ancients that good and evil are rewarded is not closed-minded and foolish, but the fundamental views of a large group of people in that era.

The belief that good and evil are rewarded also shows that people's thinking is open and enlightened. Openness of mind conveys the humility of life towards the unknown. Because faith itself is an open attitude, so you will not use extreme thoughts at will to close your own way out, and the ideological realm can easily get rid of the imprisonment of evil thoughts. The effect produced by enlightened thoughts can naturally sense the relationship between heaven and earth. harmony between. Just as it is said in ancient medical books, "righteousness exists within, evil cannot be done", life is naturally healthy and longevity is natural.

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