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People are listing the obvious but missing the correct answer: mental illness causes suicide. The brain goes in old age, which doesn’t just mean cognitive impai
by 2devnull 3y ago
People are listing the obvious but missing the correct answer: mental illness causes suicide. The brain goes in old age, which doesn’t just mean cognitive impairment but personality changes, mood and behavior regulation difficulty. Older people may hallucinate, are typically delusional and paranoid, they have trouble controlling themselves including mood and excretory functioning. There are notable examples in the public view right now if you’ve never experienced it. That someone not in control of their own mind might kill themselves is obvious. There needn’t be rational reasons like those listed and I suspect there often aren’t.
- Podgajski 3y agoI agree. No one can tell me there’s any state of mind they can be in where they want to die by suicide. That is a mildly healthy state. Pain and suffering are no excuse to die by suicide. People do not know what it means to say “if I was suffering, I would just kill myself“ to someone who lives with the mental illness and his homeless. Because mid 50s and that’s me. So you’re literally giving me the OK to kill myself.
- 2devnull 3y agoI hope your situation improves. Keep the faith.