Suicidal friend

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Datalyss

Call it want you want. IMO, if you'd rather kill yourself than deal with your life, you might as well be remembered as a coward. Deciding not to kill yourself, for whatever reason, is not cowardice, it's bravery. It says that your brave enough to go on dealing with your life.

You obviously have never been suicidal and completely have no idea what it is like to be suicidal. First, for the most part, suicidal thoughts are completely irrational. And I don't mean that in condescending way since those thoughts are almost impossible to control. If you have ever had bad cases of anxiety you would know this.

Second, depression is, at least from my experience, the ultimate feeling of emptiness. And that emptiness is what leads people to suicide. You lose all your drive and motivation. When you have that feeling of emptiness, you feel there simply is no point in going on.

Neither of those have anything to do with not being able to "handle life". Expecting a truly depressed person to control those emotions can honestly be similar to expecting a diabetic to naturally balance their blood sugar levels. Much of it is purely physical.