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Originally Posted by Dion
Suicide is not a matter of choice. The profound depression that motivates most suicides is a disease. This disease causes a level of pain so profound that it twists one’s ability to assess risk, to make good choices, to maintain a sense of future possibilities. When people act out of this depression, they are not exercising free choice. They are falling victim to a disease. This disease is not about logic or self interest. It is about an immediate desire to be dead
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I agree in part but suicide is a choice - it is obviously an awful choice that people make and for reasons that really they can only understand but it is a choice none the less. To say that people don't have the choice in my opinion makes it a situation in which the people are helpless to the disease/illness of depression, which isn't the case at all. Suicide such as this one is a choice that is made by people who are not thinking logically or rationally and are solving a temporary problem with a permanent solution. The fact is that people always have a choice, not just the people who do suffer from depression but also those that surround them as well, they have the choice to reach out and contact those people who do suffer from depression and who have suicidal ideations.
I understand from reading your posts on the subject that this is a very personal issue for you as well so I mean absolutely no disrespect by these comments by the way and I am not minimizing the impact that depression has on the person because I have seen it myself in family members, friends as well as myself to a certain degree and I know how pervasive it is and how it warps your thoughts into thinking you are worthless.
I actually had a boss force me to write out a list of things about myself I didn't like while I was at work which really upset me a great deal and while I know am strong enough that I would feel confident in telling him to screw off, I will admit now that writing a list for someone of every fault about myself, for someone with already low self confidence really made me think about suicide, just with being tired and not thinking straight. Oddly enough this is the first time that I have mentioned that to anyone and I guess the anonymity of the internet is the only reason that I feel confident in doing so sadly enough.