Suicide is a complex behavior with biological, sociological, and psychological bases. While it is impossible to attempt to define and classify all the possible reasons a person would attempt or commit suicide, it is reasonable to create certain guidelines within which the general population would fall. Study after study had shown that nearly all persons who commit suicide suffer from a mental illness, excluding the 5% who, due to life circumstances, commit what is sometimes called “rational” suicide. Apart from those such circumstances, depression, often times undiagnosed, untreated, or not treated properly, is by far the dominant cause of suicide. Of persons with clinical depression:

§ 75% don’t ask for help or try to get treatment

§ 50% are not recognized by doctors

Suicide is highly misconstrued in today’s society. The two views presented are either sympathetic media depictions, or the feeling that someone suffering from depression or suicidal impulses is weak. Suicide is not “taking the easy way out”, and depression is not a weakness. It is a disease, a disease that can be treated and cured just like any other. Suicide cannot remain an unmentionable subject if anything is to be done to stop the ever increasing yearly rates. Unrecognized and improperly diagnosed or treated depression is a serious cause of suicide that cannot be taken lightly.

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