Here's the thing though, depression is a treatable-ish illness. Suicide is a symptom.
Isn't the usual approach to at least treat symptoms, if you can't immediately cure the underlying illness?
Isn't the usual approach to at least treat symptoms, if you can't immediately cure the underlying illness?
It's not quite my brain, and it's not quite my mind. It's my life, which in a sense is my mind. Which may or may not be my brain. I think that current psychiatry is confused about which level of abstraction is the one to target - not too surprising, since it's circular, almost strange-loopy. Also, people, even most professionals, don't really know what to do or say when the problem really is your life.
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I can imagine suicide cases brought on by real hardship such as a hopeless&painful disease; unescapeable debts in a poor society, or cases such as teenagers married to someone against their will with no chance of escape; these wouldn't be caused by an illness but it's hard to figure out on how to estimate the proportions.