Mr Boodram should refrain from stifling my voice

Dear Editor,
My recent letters on suicide generated two responses entitled: “The suicide rate reduction is real,” and “It is the walk, not the talk that makes the critical difference”, from Mr Annand Boodram, the Executive Director of The Caribbean Voice (TCV).  Mr Boodram’s letters aim to suppress my insights and to inflate his contributions on the suicide crisis.  And he achieves his goals by dangerously fabricating stories which need to be debunked if a genuine decline in the suicide rate is to be realised. Moreover, Mr Boodram’s behaviour exemplifies a wider problem which generates unbearable stress in boosting the suicide rate.
A clear case of how Mr Boodram is out to suppress my voice rests on the fact that he made false accusations that my original letter contains inaccuracies and oversights which were corrected by TCV. First of all, my original letter contained zero inaccuracies and second of all, how can TCV correct inaccuracies when there were none?  I am sorry to say that Mr Boodram’s claims are obviously fiction.  Due to such disrespect, I do not see how I can accept Mr Boodram’s invitation to be a part of TCV. Unlike Mr Boodram and most of the TCV members, I hold several advanced degrees in psychology and the neuroscience-related field at the doctorate level in addition to years of research experience.  Such training has enabled me to map the players within the suicide dynamics.  I am confident that my insights conveyed in my original letter are accurate and pivotal to the understanding of suicide in Guyana.  Mr Boodram should refrain from stifling my voice and give me a fair chance. To this end, I challenge him to provide specific examples of the inaccuracies and oversights he talks about. I guarantee he can’t come up with any because they never existed.
I am confident that I have outlined a circuit which shows how stress influences suicide in my original letter and this is also captioned here.  However, Mr Boodram wrongly criticised my insights due to his lack of knowledge.  Surely, such a circuit is fundamental and it has got to be the prevailing explanation on suicide in this country. Mr Boodram strangely claims that my ideas run counter to the complete picture on suicide in Guyana.  Mr Boodram has got to be lacking knowledge. He is unable to systematically fill in the details in my proposal and build on it in taking it further.  Mr Boodram needs to know that I am trained to convey complex ideas as concisely as possible and I am proud of how elegantly I have done this in my original letter. This is what scientists do. My unfortunate experience with Mr Boodram is reminiscent of a wider problem where non-professionals take control and destroy this country. Mr Boodram casts himself as a destructive person who has the gall to stifle my voice even though I have the required academic foundation to make pivotal contributions.  Mr Boodram needs to know that important solutions come through fundamental ideas like mine and a useful walk depends on such ideas. Definitely, Mr Boodram needs to refocus his talk and walk by giving stress centre-stage attention.  Mr Boodram needs to know that copycatting is only a minuscule piece of the suicide dynamic when considering how stress rewires the brain in multiple ways in eliciting suicidal behaviours.

Sincerely,
Dr Annie Baliram