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To: giotto

As one who has been there, not one thing on that list matters to someone who is clinically depressed. If any one of those things mattered to the person, there would be hope and truly depressed people have no hope left.


69 posted on 03/24/2008 6:35:38 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (I support global warming.)
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To: Hoodlum91
As one who has been there, not one thing on that list matters to someone who is clinically depressed. If any one of those things mattered to the person, there would be hope and truly depressed people have no hope left.

Just curious--What would you have put on the list? Or is the very idea of a list not even relevant? To me those are all rock solid reasons.

But it doesn't really matter how many reasons there are, or even what they are. What matters is that they lead to one decision only: NEVER to commit suicide. This precept overrides all impulse, all despair, all the reasons why suicide may seem like the only way out. This is why medication is so dangerous. A mind under the influence of drugs, legal or illegal, may forget that promise in a rush of emotion. Rules and reasons can help us remember.

73 posted on 03/24/2008 7:53:24 AM PDT by giotto
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