ly isolated; because of their distress, they may not think of anyone they can turn to, furthering this isolation.In the vast majority of cases a suicide attemptor would choose differently if they were not in great distress and were able to evaluate their options objectively. Most suicidal people give warning signs in the hope that they will be rescued, because the are intent on stopping their emotional pain, not on dying. People who are suicidal are not crazy. Having suicidal thoughts does not imply that you are crazy, or necessarily mentally ill. People who attempt suicide are often distressed and the vast majorities are depressed to some extent. This depression may be either a reactive depression, which is an entirely normal reaction to difficult circumstances, or may be an endogenous depression, which is the result of a diagnosable mental illness with other underlying causes. It also may be a combination of two. The list doesn’t end here because we also have a major depression, dysthemia, bipolar depression, and seasonal affective disorder, post partum depression, atypical depression.What is depression? Being clinically depressed is very different from the down type of feeling that all people experience from time to time. Occasional feelings of sadness are a normal part of life, and it is that such feelings are often colloquially referred to as a “depression”. In clinical depression, such feelings are out of proportion to any external causes. There are things in everyone’s life that are possible causes of sadness, but people who are not depressed manage to cope with these things without becoming incapacitated. As one might expect, depression can present itself as feeling sad or “having the blues”. However, sadness may not always be dominant feeling if a depressed person. Depression can also be experienced as a numb or empty feeling or perhaps no awareness of feeling at all. A depressed person may e...
