Many depressed people dwell on suicide, and a few chronically depressed commit suicide. That is fact. No one can know why an individual commits suicide, no more than we know why hundreds of millions of people with horrible problems and issues, keep surviving day after day. read more
Prolonged life circumstances of extreme stress, emotional upset, abuse, poverty, terrible living conditions, neglect, poor health, injury, disability - especially with no apparent hope of change or improvement can and do precipitate depression and suicidal thoughts for some. read more
This is without question the most common reason people commit suicide. Severe depression is always accompanied by a pervasive sense of suffering as well as the belief that escape from it is hopeless. The pain of existence often becomes too much for severely depressed people to bear. read more