i do not think it's healthy and i wouldn't do it because death has to come naturally on its own terms
my question really is, what's the difference between ending your life and being depressed for the most part of it. isn't that how people get cancer and other types of illness
what are your thoughts on this
thanks
2006-10-21 05:31:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thinking about suicide is actually a lot more positive than most people assume. If you think about suicide and decide to not to do it, then you are living your life intentionally and not by some cosmic accident. You have taken control of your life by thinking about the reasons why you want to live.
2006-10-21 06:20:00 · answer #1 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depression can be treated. Cancer does not have a link to depression that I know of. If your depression is not chemical (it often is), you need to take a hard look at your life and figure out WHY you are depressed. If it's the career field, change. If it's the current greyness of the sky, add more lights. If you really don't like your social life, change it. If you've been bar hopping and don't get anything out of it any more, try going to college, getting involved in local theater or joining a church. You can control your environment more than you think. Your diet can also affect your outlook. Try eating more protein, vegetables, and fruit.
2006-10-21 05:38:57 · answer #2 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depression is a condition which can be temporary or ongoing. Yes, things such as cancer and other diseases can manifest more quickly. Don't be misled into believing that illnesses such as this are CAUSED by depression. Suicide ends it---there's no turning back and no tomorrow. Keep that frame of mind believing that it's wrong to do it.
2006-10-21 05:37:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suicide is a feeling of hopelessness. If the person is depressed but keeps on going...they have hope. Either way it needs addressed. It can be overcome, with the right help. Please, learn the warning signs and be alert. Get help if you suspect anyone is at risk for depression or suicide. Everyone deserves a healthy & happy life. We need to help one another...it is a tough world out there.
2006-10-21 05:34:24 · answer #4 · answered by Shayna 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its more to do with your self esteem, feel bad about your self means your maybe prone to illness or take longer to recover from treatments (cancer). Being positive means you seem to bounce back from illnesses quickly or not prone to them as easily. People in pain because of illness therefore maybe prone to depression and suicidal thoughts such as when they have cancer.
2006-10-21 05:52:59 · answer #5 · answered by English Knight 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you do not get cancer from being depressed some cancers are caused by comman viruses and some is from bad cancer cells so suicide and cancer is nothing the same
2006-10-21 05:38:51 · answer #6 · answered by Mandy L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i never thought about suicide until i got violently ill and i suffered such pain in the eyes and head that all i felt was severe pain and was terrified by it and horrified by the whole experience. my life was nothing but being on the floor, twisting and turning in pain so badly so i couldn't breathe.
then i thought about these things after this situation with my condition (malignant hypertension) was corrected (of course with tons of medications) i feel as if i have to go through this again there would be no way i could take the painful dying... i would wish to stop it.... sorry. i rather not but the way things are... being mostly blind now and not making the money i was once time of day and suffering a moderate stroke which leads me to be not as 'efficient' as i once was... plus along with the medications and the health care plans...
one can't even take pain killers.. so what they're addictive.. but i'm dying and in DIRE pain! the kind of pain that humbles you... for years i heard folks go on about how one can't possibly phathom the pain they suffer... but they were mobile and they could live life like normal just it had pain in it. i also had pain.. real bad pain in the joints and back.. neck and head. sometimes it was so bad i couldn't move... so bad.. but i could live.. just had to attend to it as best as i could.
but since marijuana is illegal and oh my god no better not do that you're evil and stupid... (they don't know.... it's ignorance pot helped my pain duh! but you can't tell folks that... forget it) i was growing cysts on my wrist bone and this, that.. nosebleeds... vision was getting distorted...
then the BAD pain came the kind that shuts one up.. the kind that makes one understand that it really can get worse.. it really can be so out of control that you are paralized and can't enable yourself to even crawl to do basic things like go to the bathroom to attend to just simple processes like urination...
can't sleep because the pain keeps waking you up.. and the sleep isn't sleep it's passing out..
bolts and severe stabbing in places that you couldn't figure that would be effected.. like the eyes.. how terrible.. the eyes are so very important.. now they're in such bad pain i can't even breathe everything is swollen and to move causes them to feel like a billion bolts of lightening are shooting into them and all around my face and the forehead.
i couldn't take it.. i went blind fully for a week... i was rushed to the e.r. knowing that it had something to do with my blood pressure but i didn't realize how bad.
280/190 was the reading.. and they threw me in the dying ward hooked to a machine forcing my blood pressure down... and feeding me Dilaudid (sp?) codeine among other things.. i didn't even know i was in the hospital until they started asking me *** nine questions like who am i and what year is this do i know where i am and do i know who the president is? what is my religion and do i need anything from home i like to have with me? do i want to have last rites and so on...
no way! i didn't care at the moment because i was made comfortable... painkillers thank god for painkillers.. those who say they are to be made unavailable to people should feel a little of that "PAIN" themselves... i remember the story of the DEA agent who campaigned so hard and worked to the bone to make it harder and harder for painkillers to be aquirable.. then suddenly he gets a taste of his own medicine... chronic pain... now he's sorry he did all that.. he wishes he would have kept his mouth shut on a topic he had no clue about until now.
why does it take one to suffer before they understand.
i sure do now.... but i never campaigned...
all i know is.. when i must go it will hurt like hell and i want that pain to be stopped..
and i want no pain when i die... and if i must suffer the pain i want to end it...
i don't want this...
but that's the way it goes.
i don't like suicide i thought it was a disease of an ingrate.... mostly but moreso now through watching loved ones suffer with terminal diseases and other things.. and going through some enlightenment myself with pain and terminal.. disease that can't be cured .... now i know... it's not just something that a despressed kid thinks about.. or a scorned lover who has nothing left..
it's sad.. it's a dam shame.
sorry this was long but that's my personal point...
no way i want to suffer the pain i had... but it's only temperarily stopped by medication.. and i am very grateful but it's not gone...
someday it will return and i am not going to suffer a long journey of violent pain again no WAY!
to end a life that is just depressing isn't a good reason.. work at stopping it... but i know it can be hard and i know i'm a hypocrite for saying that.. but with most depression it can be helped... without meds.. but there's some conditions that i've seen are a trap.. and yes i have trouble saying "don't do what you think will stop it.." because i seen some chronic depression and i've seen some chemical imbalances that really.. if i can't take what i have... i know it can be an emotional nightmare for some when it comes to depressions.. the condition and other forms of disorders relative to depression and mental disorders that aren't just because "you're down" or "i'm just depressed".
it's hard.. it can be.. some find escape through death.. i known a few... latest case was a skitz.. he really tried but he couldn't take the nightmare anymore and the medications stopped working no matter how many he tried and worked along with the doctors and therapists.. his battle ended by his own hand after 30 years of trying...
it's scarey and unfortunate.
thanks for your time.
sorry for the spelling.. yahoo spell check just spins and spins.. so i said nah forget it!
2006-10-21 05:52:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋