[Pharmboy]

Three times the suicide rate is pretty impressive. While not all women who have breast augmentation are mentally imbalanced, that there is a certain percentage of breats surgery women would be "less happy" than others makes a certain amount of sense.

[Mr. Mojo]

Makes sense.

[coloradan]

If reporters treat this same study with the same attitude that they treat Violence Policy Center "studies," we will soon be hearing calls to ban breast implants, because they "cause" suicides and mental instability. Correlation vs. causation.

[ElkGroveDan]

You know the rule with a thread like this...pictures?

[exile]

It sounds like many large breasted women are suffering from depression and are in dire need of a hug. If they can clear it with Mrs. Exile, I'd love to be of service.

[stylin_geek]

I want to do the study that correlates cup size and potential for suicide. I plan on being a "hands on" type of researcher.

[camle]

boingie-biongie-boingie?

[YouPosting2Me]

Interesting... keep me a-breast of the situation as 'they develop'.

[Little Pig]

Lookit them melons bounce.

[RtWngr]

They may be depressed, but they sure have nice .....

[freeangel]

Many of the women I see are suffering from huge self esteem problems. When bigger breasts don't act as a cure-all, I can see how these figures make sense.

[exnavychick]

It's not surprising. Sad, though. Those women would have been better served to have spent their money on a therapist instead.

[MadAnthony1776]

Could it be that not being happy with one's appearance, therefore having breast implants to raise one's esteem is contributing to this rate. Breast implantations are probably one of the most notable forms of cosmetic surgery and after getting it done they find out the satisfaction just isn't there compared to them being natural.

[Squantos]

small subset....new twist...hard measure....barely significant......breast implant story ........:o)

The author is clearly a boob !

[Prime Choice]

A new study adds to evidence that women with cosmetic breast implants have a higher rate of suicide than other women and shows, for the first time, that they may be more likely to have a history of psychiatric illness as well.

And that, dear friends, is why I like 'em natural.

Oh yes...

[WilliamWallace1999]

I file this under the "No Shit Sherlock" heading. A woman willing to shove a huge blob of toxic, foreign substance into her body because of her poor self-image or to satisfy some lard-butt on the sofa is almost certainly more at risk for suicide.

[Junior]

Sweetie, have you seen this?

[wideawake]

(1) A large percentage of augmented women are "exotic dancers", prostitutes and porn actresses. Such women often come from abusive households, have abusive relationships, have professional lives that generally last a very short time before they are cast aside, etc.

(2) Women who augment themselves usually do it because they are deeply insecure about how they look - and this insecurity could be part of a deeper problem.

[Cosmo]

This is interesting to me. My wife's best friend is simultaneously obsessed with having implants and she's often suicidal.

[fso301]

It shouldn't come as a surprise that women unhappy with themselves and undergo such surgery find themselves unhappy postsurgery.

Many of the people undergoing such proceedures are probably more in need of counseling than surgical enhancement.

[Lunkhead_01]

Whether the elevated rate of psychiatric conditions explains the higher suicide risk is not clear from the findings.

It sounds to me as if women who are willing (for no good reason, that is, for the sole reason of looking as if they could be Hugh Hefner's girlfriend) to let a doctor slice them open in two places and stuff foreign substances into their bodies are in need of psychiatric assistance. The fact that they are apparently three times as likely to off themselves as women who don't care how Hugh Hefner would rate them is not that surprising to me.