Why do people commit suicide?
Statistics show that all over the world the numbers of suicides have grown in the last years. Why do people decide to take their own lives and what determines them take such a final decision? These are questions that preoccupy now many specialists.Recent studies have discovered that people that suffer from Dual or Co-Occurring Disorders have a greater potential on committing suicide than the ones that are considered to be healthy from this point of view. But, of course there are many other causes that can bring a suicidal action.
Many support groups have been formed for the ones that are dealing with the pain of loosing someone their loved to a suicide attitude. A very common reaction that suicide survivors experience is the withdrawal and the lack of contact with exterior world. These individuals isolate themselves from their friends and families and are always analyzing their feelings and of course, they are not satisfied at all with their lives, even if, in most cases, they are actually declaring themselves very happy.
On the other hand, they can decide to dedicate themselves to work and do nothing else except work. And this is their own way to deal with their pain of losing the one they loved. But, this pain is actually amplified by the blame people put on themselves. Understanding the fact that a suicide attitude is no one’s blame is the first step on the healing process. Another thing that characterize those that have lost someone because that person decided to take his or her own life away, is the fact that they keep the pain inside and they do not want to share their thoughts and feelings.
But the most important element that produces the drama for such individuals is the question “could I prevent this from happening?” The reality is that there are some warning signs, but they are, in general, ignored by many people. However, an individual that suffer from a sever depression that conducts to suicide is also an unforeseeable person and you can never know what to expect, at least this is what specialists consider, so no one should be blamed for this cruel decision.
But why do people commit suicide after all? Experts say that this is their response and the only way they see as possible to get rid of extreme stress, depression, emotional problems, abuse, poverty, financial problems, health issues, disability, all these elements being seen by different individuals as unable to ever be treated or eliminated.
For individuals that commit suicide this is actually the only way they see to deal with their problems. And in most cases, a suicide interferes after many attempts, because the one that tries once to take his life away will definitely continue trying until managing to accomplish this wish.
According to specialists, depression is today the biggest cause in suicidal cases because this disease can be very difficult to treat, and most of the times there, are not treatments that can help a patient pass a depressive period. Severe depression can also determine other conditions, because recently specialists have discovered that there is a link between Alzheimer and this disease. But, what to do or how can you avoid such a situation? Specialists say that when the first sings of depression occur, patients should see immediately a doctor, because even if the cure is not very easy to achieve, the disease can be kept under control with medical assistance.11
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I think that people that commit suicide are cowards. You see so many natural disasters on TV and entire cities being swiped away by flood water and old being left with absolutely nothing and you don’t see them taking their lives. I mean, when you are 60 – 70 years old, you have no home, no savings, nothing, what is the point to keep on living? Yet you don’t see them taking they lives. Suicide is a solution for cowards!!
You know what the worst part is? When you send depressed people to the shrink… I mean people with depression have some serious issues going on and sitting there in front of a guy who’s babbling about life being beautiful and stuff like that can’t really help them very much. How is that shrink better than me and who is he to tell me that life is magic? How does he know what I’m going through?
I have gone through the comments of the people. Its very easy to talk when you are living happily and have not faced any difficult situation when all the hopes are lost and God forbid they ever come to face any such situation. But for the people underway circumstances where there is not even a ray of hope their pain their agony cannot be penned so instead of further depressing and giving adverse remarks / opinion we should try to help them.
I am a victim of depression and anxiety disorder and suicidal thoughts are a daily experience in my life yet i have a good job and a stable income. A person who has never suffered depression can never understand why someone would want to take their life because they have no idea how painful emotional pain is.It is better to be poor than suffer mental disorder with all the money in the world because when your depressed u don’t even enjoy the money (furthermore the hierarchy of needs theory is unavoidable) .It is not an act of cowardice to commit suicide but simply a way to get out of the pain after lacking an alternative way out (there is always a desire to live on). I agree with Shahzad that instead of giving adverse remarks people suffering depression should be helped out of it so that they dont go to the extent of suicide. At least people who are in poverty have hope that they will get the next meal unlike a person who suffers depression who sees no hope in his life and all he knows is unbearable emotional pain! i fear that soon i could lose my job. I’m i not strong to have survived several suicidal attempts?