My dad has it, which is why I commented. I've never been able to understand it or relate to it. So the explination is really helpful.
I was actually reading something on men and suicide because while depression (they said) causes thoughts, there is a very unlikely chance that most go through with it.
Those who are suicidal often only hint about the idea, toying with it in their minds, how many different ways, like flirting with death and they seemed to stress that it was a separate entity on its own from depression. Having knowing someone who commited a very violent suicide (taking a shotgun and putting it in his mouth), we never saw him depressed. He was probably the happiest man out of all of us and the suicide came so suddenly, it threw everyone and brought up a lot of questions.
If we didn't see the suicide coming, was there even depression there to begin with? Or something deeper that was wrong?
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Date: 2009-02-11 05:40 pm (UTC)I was actually reading something on men and suicide because while depression (they said) causes thoughts, there is a very unlikely chance that most go through with it.
Those who are suicidal often only hint about the idea, toying with it in their minds, how many different ways, like flirting with death and they seemed to stress that it was a separate entity on its own from depression. Having knowing someone who commited a very violent suicide (taking a shotgun and putting it in his mouth), we never saw him depressed. He was probably the happiest man out of all of us and the suicide came so suddenly, it threw everyone and brought up a lot of questions.
If we didn't see the suicide coming, was there even depression there to begin with? Or something deeper that was wrong?