Posted by Chris O on August 15, 2014, at 17:45:34
In reply to Re: severe overanalyzation » baseball55, posted by europerep on August 15, 2014, at 15:48:55
"I personally think that suicidality is much more common among people with depression than many people think. Not just severe depression. It's just that it only becomes a serious option after quite a long time, like was the case for me. And at least for people who suffer "just" episodes of depression, as opposed to chronic, depression goes away sufficiently fast for serious suicidality not to occur."
Well said. I totally concur. Whether or not someone has a professional psychiatric diagnosis, it's hard for me to disconnect the true underlying motivations for suicide from mental illness, at least in the West. In East Asia, where Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism dominate--without the suicide prohibitions of the Abrahamic faiths (that I believe affect most of us in the West, even those of us believing ourselves to be completely secular humanist), the issue is more complicated.
Chris
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