Vulnerable Population

There are so many people believe such a myth.
I think people who have friends or relative died with depression believe that only deeply depressed people commit suicide.
Here is an example,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2n5npIHyg
This is a video talking about a man’s wife died of depression. Besides, he tried to spread this message through youtube or other means in order to tell people to concern more about the depressed people. It is very clear that people believe there is a important relationship and causation between suicide and depression.

Media is one of them. We can see the association between depression and suicide everywhere such as pictures, news even magazine. Although they just try to tell people paying more attention on depressed people, there is strong belief that the depression and suicide are linked together in such media.

The therapists of depression are not an exception. Based on the researches, there are many of the therapists believing this myth even though they are knowledgeable in such area. Most of their patients are depression. Therefore, they are easily to see some of their patients committing suicide. It is so called "seeing what they expect to see".Since they are specialized with depression, they may be biased by just being in touch with depressed people.