I believe many people who have never been suicidal before don't understand that there's often a build up to feeling hopelessness. It isn't typically just one thing out of the blue that's caused someone to become suicidal, or even that we have some sort of weakened constitution inherently this way, but rather, I think there's a tipping point that one reaches after mountains of piled up failures and frustrations. There is an unrealistic dichotomy where struggling individuals get labeled as either weak, or "a fighter".
In reality, there are so many of us silently fighting and pushing onward until the pain becomes too much to bear and we feel as if there is no other choice but to throw in the towel. I've also been called weak many times or told I didn't try hard enough by people who objectively have been through a fraction of what I have, so they cannot relate to how it feels to be in an unwinnable situation that doesn't improve with time.
People have called me weak, lazy, and every other low brow insult in the book for being suicidal... Despite the fact that I have multiple disabilities, was abused and neglected growing up, went through a lot of sexual trauma, been in the mental health system since a very young age, have no family, and suffer from dehabilitating health conditions that will most likely be with me for my entire life. Yet those still aren't valid reasons to feel horrible or want to die according to the oppression Olympics proliferators.
Nothing is ever good enough to elicit compassion from such people, because they are completely blind to the struggles of spending years fighting for a decent life and will to live, then being deprived of it. It is the opposite of weakness.
