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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
LOL what? You think people don't contemplate suicide before going through with it? Most people have those thoughts long before committing the act. My complete post makes plenty of sense as she must have had other issues and this was simply a tipping point. I can't imagine anyone would get that distraught over a twitter incident to just randomly take their life.
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You're attempting to layer the way the world seems to you over someone else's entirely different experience. That's not a slight on you; you simply don't have a frame of reference to understand it. This is still my favourite concise explanation of the mismatch, though in reference to alcoholism rather than depression.
How can you possibly know what it's like to live every day with ending your own life as a realistic possibility that's ever-present? Again, you can't, which isn't a fault on your part, but it makes it insanely hard to appreciate, similar to being unable to truly conceptualize what it would be like to live life from birth without sight or hearing. The actions and decisions of people who are mentally ill aren't necessarily capable of rationalization on the basis of what makes sense to someone who doesn't suffer from the same condition. I don't know this woman, but she probably didn't need a "tipping point" as you describe it. How can you not see death as a solution, how can you see it as something that shouldn't be considered? Her brain worked differently from yours.