Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Why this myth matters to me?

I think suicide is not a strange word to me anymore. The more I grew up, the more I heard about suicide. Since there are lots of cases about suicide, this urges me to know more about this. Suicide not only happen in the U.S., but my country, Hong Kong, also has high rate of suicide.
This is true that depressed people need to be cared, but so do other people with other illnesses. Due to this myth, people overlook the condition of people who have other problems beyond depression. Consequently, the rate of suicide will keep increasing.
Although this blog is not famous, I can tell people the truth after doing the researches. This is the point why I want to take this myth.
After this, I hope to find out the reasons why people commit suicide and why people link depression and suicide together. After the research, I found out that people commit suicide not really because they are depressed. It is because they want to avoid the misfortunate. They just want to flee from the complicated society. Moreover, I found that many of suicidal people died without comfort from friends or relatives. They seemed to be alone before making the decisions no matter they were diagnosed with or without illnesses. Therefore, consistent care is needed for everyone to avoid such tragedy.
Additionally, I took this myth because I want the whole world to concern different types of illnesses. And I also want to share with them not only depressed people committing suicide. Suicide may happen to everyone, not only depression.

2 comments:

  1. That's so true that people usually associate suicide with depression, even though there may be more cases in which people commit suicide for other reasons. I think there a lot of factors that lead to suicide, but I wonder why depression has been most studied cause. I think this is an interesting blog topic, especially because Seattle has a high suicide rate. So I am really interested in what research you come up with! Good luck!

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