Question by Clue: Why do people think committing suicide is selfish? Even those whose relative have already committed suicide?
People usually claim that by killing oneself you are being selfish b/c you will put your close ones, family and friends, into a situation of emotional grief and lifelong pain b/c of your loss and the subsequent mourning.

First of all I want to say that Some people who commit suicide have NOBODY who cares for them. There exist many people among us whose parents are already dead, they have no siblings or they are also dead, and never made any friends. So if they die Really NOBODY would notice or care. So how does this argument about their being “selfish” would work in this case? I think it doesn’t work at all. It doesn’t apply to them. So people should come up with another BETTER argument if they still insist to keep these people alive and in suffering.

Second of all, has it ever crossed anyone’s mind that perhaps one of those suicidal people whom you call “selfish” may actually be the child or the brother or the parent of one of those who HAVE ACTUALLY KILLED THEMSELVES and that’s why they are depressed now? Would you be so insolent to call a grieving mother who has lost her two children in a car crash “selfish”? Would you be so impudent to call a sister who has lost her brother to drugs and an overdose “selfish”? Would you so IGNORANT to call a 15 year old child “selfish” b/c he want s to end his life after having experienced his father’s suicide with his own eyes?

People these are traumatic events that may NEVER go away from one’s mind. How could you be so SELFISH and judge those who suffer?
I really don’t get it.
@Kyle therapy and drugs are just a myth told to give false hopes and keep them here and in pain for much longer. My aunt has been in therapy and on drugs for 40 years and she still is VERY DEPRESSED AND VERY SUICIDAL. It doesn’t work for everybody. Some people should be let go.
@Hannah What makes you think that people who experienced a severe loss (for them it is severe WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE?) aren’t depressed? A person who lost a girlfriend or boyfriend or a job which he held for years IS ACTUALLY DEPRESSED. Any type of loss, no matter how minimal can trigger depression.
Don’t assume only YOUR problems are serious. This is so selfish of you. Nobody who is not depressed would think of suicide as an escape, unless he did it out of curiosity and not b/c he was SUFFERING. These people ARE suffering.
@KHAAAAN “”””I went from a nearly non-functioning, abusive, violent member of society to somebody who can hold down a job, raise children, and get the bills paid. ”
Please explain how your previous CLAIM (it is only that, nothing more. You THINK you are ‘functioning’ that doesn’t mean you truly are) agrees with your following AGGRESSIVE and OFFENSIVE statement:
“””””What the f*ck do you know?”””””
In theory only you assume you got “better”, but it is so OBVIOUS that in practice you are STILL a very abusive and violent person.

So your belief that therapy and drugs have helped is probably a PLACEBO.

You wanted to believe that something could save you and you did. You put your hopes on the psychiatric approach and now you MUST act that way only to prove you did the ‘right’ thing. You are living in your own fantasy.
If the offered treatment was “swimming in mud with frogs 5 time
If the offered treatment was “swimming in mud with frogs 5 times a week for 3 years”, you’d still buy it and 3 years later you’d SUPPORT it as you are doing with therapy and drugs.
It only works on those who are so desperate, weak and UNABLE to find a solution for themselves that they prefer to transfer the RESPONSIBILITY of their lives in the hands of others.

That is the BITTER truth whether you like it or not.

And now to answer your INSULTING question :What the f* ck do I know?
Well let me see … a 4-year BS degree in Psychology with a 4.00 GPA, a 2-year Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and currently in the 4th year of my PhD. Have worked in mental hospitals and rehab centers.
I think that QUALIFIES me.

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