This article explains a lot

[Tintypographer]

Psychiatrist: I hate suicide but also understand it | CNN

Even psychiatrists have a very difficult time predicting when someone is at heightened risk for suicide. Suicide is often an impulsive act.

www.cnn.com

This article does a good job of explaining suicidal depression

 

[WornOutLife]

Ty 4 sharing.
Gonna check it out.

 

[End Game]

I resemble that comment. I have long had depression. but It was when unbearable anxiety kicked in that pushed me over the edge. Anxiety on top of severe depression is extremely difficult to deal with and makes you feel like you have lost your mind.

Thanks for sharing

 

[Goodbye710]

A quote from the article "Finally, it is not true that talking about suicide increases the likelihood it will happen. In fact, studies suggest the opposite"

 

[GarageKarate07]

Psychiatrist: I hate suicide but also understand it | CNN

Even psychiatrists have a very difficult time predicting when someone is at heightened risk for suicide. Suicide is often an impulsive act.

www.cnn.com

This article does a good job of explaining suicidal depression

Yeah theres a lot of good things in this article. Its pretty long also. I was expecting it to be short but they really put in a lot of talking points here.

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

A quote from the article "Finally, it is not true that talking about suicide increases the likelihood it will happen. In fact, studies suggest the opposite"

So all those reporting guidelines are pointless?

 

[Tintypographer]

So all those reporting guidelines are pointless?

I actually don't know. One thing I am always positive of is that the easy problems get solved first. If severe depression, mental health, anxiety, suicidal ideation and the associated problems tied to them were easy to solve the need for this forum and the feelings of hopelessness and pain would be dramatically decreased.

 

[demuic]

There are at least two reasons why suicide in response to major depression is so horrible and so tragic. First, although our treatments for depression are far from perfect, they are nonetheless effective enough to help the vast majority of depressed people feel well enough to forgo killing themselves.

And even when treatment is not particularly effective, depression often passes on its own accord. It is not an incurable cancer that offers a guaranteed foreshortened future of unbearable pain. Because of this, depressed people kill themselves over something that would have lifted had they just been able to hang in there.

I have a major issue with this part. I'm tired of the cliché that depressed people shouldn't kill themselves because "things might get better". They might actually get worse. Or they might stay the same.

I've been depressed for almost 6 years now with no sign of improvement, and it's only gotten worse over time. There's a point at which you can feel you've lost your mind. I'm not going to wait around in agony because "mental health clinicians" think it will eventually pass on it own, someday.

Beside that, depression isn't the only cause of suicide. Environmental factors can also be a big factor of what leads to depression and what psychiatry and psychology still consistently fail to address. You can stuff someone full of pills but nothing will change if they're living with abuse, poverty, unemployment, grief, etc

In general, people fail to distinguish between minor and moderate bouts of depression in the short term, and severe depression that is with you almost 24/7, 365 days a year, but that's another discussion.

 

[Last chance]

I have a major issue with this part. I'm tired of the cliché that depressed people shouldn't kill themselves because "things might get better". They might actually get worse. Or they might stay the same.

I've been depressed for almost 6 years now with no sign of improvement, and it's only gotten worse over time. There's a point at which you can feel you've lost your mind. I'm not going to wait around in agony because "mental health clinicians" think it will eventually pass on it own, someday.

Beside that, depression isn't the only cause of suicide. Environmental factors can also be a big factor of what leads to depression and what psychiatry and psychology still consistently fail to address. You can stuff someone full of pills but nothing will change if they're living with abuse, poverty, unemployment, grief, etc

In general, people fail to distinguish between minor and moderate bouts of depression in the short term, and severe depression that is with you almost 24/7, 365 days a year, but that's another discussion.

I agree with this,there is also the fear you have to live with that if it does pass it will probably return at some point. This has been the case for me. I will be severally depressed for several years,life will get better and then something will come along,kick my legs out and send me back down into the bottomless depression pit.

It's hard to live a happy life knowing that misery is always just around the corner and hard to see any point in battling through depression knowing that it will always return. Im tired of it.