Ehwmatt wrote:For every 1 legitimately depressed person that may be so disturbed as to do this (I really believe you only get to this point of taking your life when the depression is concurrent with something else - schizo/bipolar etc), there are undoubtedly 10 people who either are highly self-destructive or kill themselves just because they think it's what they have. I'm not an MD, but I do know that one of the big problems they have with defining mental illnesses is a lot of times they can't tell if their criteria for the illness actually result in people "making" themselves have it. I have no doubt in my mind that's what goes on with a lot of these so-called depression suicide cases.
If you can accept that it exists for that 1 out of 10, why arrogantly assume
that young man's death was one of the nine? You must be assuming it,
since you quickly abused the tragedy as a soapbox for your very loud
"medical expertise".
If you can accept post-partum depression is chemically real, and can lead
to suicide in a moment of what should be supreme happiness, then the
pseudo solution of "surrounding yourself with happy people" is revealed
for the arrogant crock of bullshit it is.
Pigfuckers.
