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Originally posted by accelgors
just stop talking. you don't know anything at all about mental illness. acting as if someone mentally ill has perfect ability to be exactly what you view as rational. it's really god damn easy to just tell people to endure what they're going through when you're not the one experiencing it, huh? and the most ridiculous part here is that it's somehow ok to kill yourself to avoid physical suffering but it's not to avoid mental suffering. you obviously have no idea how bad real mental suffering can be. ugh, people like you make me so mad
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No, I will not stop talking? And I do know how bad real mental suffering can be, who are you to say I don't? I went through an extremely rough time in my life when I was 15. I was so depressed I didn't have any motivation whatsoever to do
anything. I hated being home, I hated going to school, I hated everybody around me and I hated myself. One day I was doing laundry and I just sat down on the floor in front of my dryer and stared forward at a wall for over an hour, feeling lower than low mentally and crying almost all the time. I've experienced being deeply depressed. Still, I never once considered killing myself an option. Please don't say I don't know how bad "real" mental suffering is, it was very real for me when I felt that way.
I said I could
understand why someone with a terminal illness would want to end their life, I didn't say it was "OK". This could pertain to both the physical and mental suffering that comes with being diagnosed with a terminal illness. There's a difference between somebody killing themselves who knows that they're doomed to die soon and somebody who is healthy but feeling depressed.
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Originally posted by gloamingtheplain
This is the stupidest thing I have read regarding clinical depression.
People who kill themselves with clinical depression, don't realise they are actually doing so. They see it more as a way out from the pain, rather than of life.
Most people who had been stopped during an attempted suicide, say they don't want to die, and they never wanted to. They just want the pain to stop.
They don't comprehend the concept, like we do, due to the illness.
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Like I said above, I've experienced being extremely depressed. I've been through times where I've felt all the pain I thought
I or any other human being could ever feel and I couldn't imagine feeling any lower than the pain I felt then. I was at rock bottom, completely broken. If I didn't see suicide as an option when I felt that way, I should never see it as an option since I can't possibly feel any worse mentally/emotionally than I did at that time.
, I'd have to say this is a real eye opener. 
. Already talking about killing himself at age 5 , his somehow "natural" obsession with death. It makes it really clear that any person with depression really isn't in the right state of mind and anything they do at that point really isn't under their control.Sometimes some people really don't have a way out