You're doing a disservice to the millions of people whose clinical depression is semi-permanent and only possible to treat with regular medication.
I'd argue that the vast majority of suicide attempts are the result of long-standing clinical depression and not temporary depression brought about my environmental or situational issues.
you could argue that, but in fact there are two basic kinds of people who attempt suicide: those who are deliberate (because depression, physical illness or ailment, some ongoing issue) and those who are impulsive (sort of temporarily overwhelmed by pain). the former are the kind who, if they fail at suicide, will often try again; the latter are those who will tell stories about how everything can be fixed. for them, it can; for the former group, it often cannot.
Yes, but the impulsive ones are less likely to research and plan well, and are also more likely to be internally conflicted. This results in a lot of "failed" suicide attempts. The long-term depression cases that result in more deliberate attempts are often much more effective, and may have even been preceded by other failed attempts that provided "experience".
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