Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:56 pm
I absolutely concur the complications and contradictions that taking one's life might incur. To a degree, blazin, I empathize with your delineations regarding what's suicide and what's not. However
is a typical response to those who have never lived with or faced deep depression.
For them, it takes more courage to die than to live. It's like being stuck in a bottomless pit with absolutely no way out. It's impossible to change negative thought into positive, into a will to care or a will to even try. So to suggest strength and courage ought to be an automatic response is indicative of the inability of people to fully understand the ramifications of chronic/clinical depression, to want to learn about it, or to even want to talk about it - it's too embarrassing. Because it's intangible it doesn't really exist. Ignore it and it'll go away. Pull up your bootstraps and move on.
It just doesn't happen that way.
blazin wrote:the latter should have the courage and strength to face it
is a typical response to those who have never lived with or faced deep depression.
For them, it takes more courage to die than to live. It's like being stuck in a bottomless pit with absolutely no way out. It's impossible to change negative thought into positive, into a will to care or a will to even try. So to suggest strength and courage ought to be an automatic response is indicative of the inability of people to fully understand the ramifications of chronic/clinical depression, to want to learn about it, or to even want to talk about it - it's too embarrassing. Because it's intangible it doesn't really exist. Ignore it and it'll go away. Pull up your bootstraps and move on.
It just doesn't happen that way.