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You know, it really ticks me off when religion is dragged into the discussion of suicide. For once, can we just forget about your "God" and talk about people?
Suicide isn't cowardly, but it's certainly wrong and saddening. It's really not worth it, considering all the pain you go through before you die and the risk of surviving. I survived a suicide attempt in January 2009. I overdosed badly and ended up in the emergency room where I would endure the most horrifying experience of my life. Suicide isn't a coward's practice; if you would open up your mind, you would see that suicide is all a depressed person sees. They don't see a way out of their problems and want to be out of them right away.
Have any of you reading this actually been severely depressed? I'm not talking about an episode of sadness, I am talking about feeling sad every single day of your life, where you don't even want to get out of bed in the morning because even that seems useless. The world seems hopeless in your eyes. You don't want to do anything anymore, even the things you love. You lack energy. Everything is horrid and you just can't shake off this heavy feeling. In that situation, most see death as the only way out. Depressed people, for the most part, don't want to die; they just want out of their problems. I was severely depressed for nearly four years of my life and it was the worst feeling in the world. When I was actively suicidal, all I remember is thinking, "I just want this pain to end".
Some of you will say "just see a therapist". Well, I was lucky to get connected with a therapist. Some people can't because of cultural reasons, financial reasons, scheduling, etc. You don't know the lives of people and therefore can't judge them so easily.
In this long post, all I'm saying is suicide isn't something to ignorantly judge. It's a serious matter that should be dealt with open-mindedly.
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