Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Better way to think about it

It is true that depressed people are highly risky to commit suicide. However, the myth, “Only deeply depressed people commit suicide”, is not really correct. We actually could say in the better way.
First of all, people believe depressed people commit suicide, but NOT ONLY. This is too affirmative and lead people to the wrong side. There are so many people died in suicide not because of the depression, but schizophrenia, social phobia, alcoholism and drug abuse etc. In some researches, they stated that some suicidal people appear to be happies than they’ve been years because they decided to “resolve” all their problem by killing themselves. Furthermore, it also mentioned deeply depressed people do not actually have energy to commit suicide. Therefore, we should not say “Only depressed people commit suicide”.
Based on some research, only the range of 13 percent to 41 percent of people who commit suicide meet diagnostic criteria of major depression. Can that be said as only deeply depressed people commit suicide? I don’t think so.
For me, I think there are some better ways to think about it. We could say people who are with mental disorder have higher chance to commit suicide. Since people with mental illnesses could not control their thoughts and emotions easily, they are easy to make the wrong decisions – suicide. We’d better focus on what kind of people have tendency to suicide, not the word “ONLY” and “DEEPLY”.

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