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Your story intrigued me
I have known several people who have committed suicide, some didn't show any signs and those who did were ignored and considered outcast. Your story was spectacular for me. It was not what I though when first starting to read. Psychology I never saw in the picture, it was their size and their adventures that caught on to me.
That story should go to magazines. Just do a search for magazines. I'm sure there are at least three who would buy your story
posted by
Amanda6
on February 4, 2012 at 1:12 PM
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its more than that even.....its a sense of no life purpose....of uselessness....as if you no longer matter (if you ever thought you did) to anyone....that you have absolutely no worth .... nothing to contribute.....and what better release then to take that one step with a rope around your neck or walk into the path of a car....
posted by
Annicita
on January 29, 2012 at 8:52 PM
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Re: Thanks, DG!
Yes, I'm afraid I do have some understanding of it from close in.
posted by
Ciel
on December 29, 2011 at 7:06 PM
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Well written and you have a deep understanding of this disease.
posted by
dancin_grandma
on December 29, 2011 at 4:38 AM
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I know what you're talking about.
It is like having someone who hates you, living in your basement.
posted by
Randir
on December 19, 2011 at 5:18 PM
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Kabu, you're right--there is much more sympathy for someone whose ailment
is seen as outside their own control--regardless of the self-destructive life-habits that fostered their final disease.
It is broken hearts that choose to die. Most of us don't have time for other people's broken hearts.
posted by
Ciel
on December 9, 2011 at 3:20 PM
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TAPS, there is a fear in someone prone to depression & suicidal thinking--
that one day, that nefarious, seductive, prodding voice of self-destruction will win.
People who kill themselves don't want to: That suicidal part of them wants to. It only has to persuade the decision-making self to a final action for a single moment. It focuses on the alienation, the isolation, the never-ending abandonment...
Those who say--"Promise you will call me, if ever you feel this way!" don't seem to understand that when you feel that way, you don't remember or believe that anyone is there for you. Or they think that making that promise is like casting out a sea-anchor, that will provide, maybe, hopefully, just enough drag on the impulse to make keeping that promise possible.
posted by
Ciel
on December 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM
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very well written ..yes I have known people who have acted on their
depression, folk who make their own and others life extremely difficult and break their children's/parents hearts and some who try really hard to overcome. It is a terrible journey for all those involved.
if a person has a heart attack, cancer MS. whatever there is so much more understanding.
posted by
Kabu
on December 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM
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Wow, you said it so well. You made it sound so terrible--which it is. Such a terrible state that most of us cannot truely understand it, or even see more than just a glimpse now and then in someone else.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 9, 2011 at 2:20 PM
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