Okay, so that last post i made is problematic. I can really see both points of view.
I feel as if perhaps the response can be interpreted falsely at some points by a reader; in particular, “People try so hard to battle, and in the end, unfortunately, we don’t always win.”
I get what is trying to be said: some people commit suicide no matter how much help they seek out. But I feel like it could be read as: suicide is inevitable for some people and it could maybe be you or someone you love. I get that’s not what was implied but that’s how it felt at the first couple reads.
Also I feel as if the correlation between suicide as an act and the existence of depression in a person to be conflated in terms of “selfishness” (which is, by the way, a value judgement and thus totally subjective.) I don’t think the original poster was inferring that people that are depressed are selfish, rather, I understood it as the act of suicide is selfish. Unless that was said somewhere and I am completely wrong. Granted, commentary makes the (Inadvertent?) point that it can be very hard to untangle the act from the victim who suffered from depression and there is a thin, thin line betwixt the two.
I’m not trying to say someone is all right or all wrong, because both are legit. I just think there’s crossing of the wires going on.
This was handled with more grace than I could probably manage, but caution needs to be had when we tell others what they can and can’t talk about because of experience, just as the inverse (the same caution is need when we decide to talk about things we are unfamiliar with) is true.
I don’t know Internet, I had a lot of weird feels about this post.
