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Old 11-03-2007, 04:28 PM   #101 (permalink)
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And I stand by what I said. Killing yourself out of depression or fear or escapism out of low marks in exams, financial problems or failed love affairs, or failures, or phobias indeed is sheer stupidity and shows lack of strength and courage.
What you are failing to understand is that those are merely side issues in a suicidal person. The brain misfires and suddenly you want to kill yourself because you burned the fried chicken. It's not the burned chicken. It's the chemical misfire in your brain that gets the wrong message. The smallest things because huge. It's like having your skin peeled off. The slightest breeze to a normal person suddenly feels like glass cutting your skin to a depressed person. Over time this kind of pain piles up on someone until they see no other way out. The fact that you cannot understand why someone who fails an exam kills themselves not because of an exam but because of the underlying condition, tells me you do not in fact understand this problem. Nor is that a bad thing. But you should at least be prudent enough to try to understand an issue before you go making opinions based on nothing but your lack of knowledge on the subject at hand.

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Perhaps wisdom , or good role models, or a good,positive environment or a good support system could have helped these people to survive their adversities and keep soldiering on.
And perhaps people like you shouldn't keep putting them down as a less than good human being and calling them weak and a coward? More people like you who say that do a dis service to those who are too afraid to ask and reach out for help.
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