From The Age: Most public discussion and media portrayals of suicide assume that suicide is solely the result of mental illness such as depression and anxiety. However, many environmental stressors and trauma can drive someone to suicide, including financial hardship, loneliness, and chronic pain.
Just because a person feels driven to take their own life does not mean that there is anything “wrong” with them.
I agree Steven. The reason so many of us labeled “severely mentally ill” choose to kill ourselves is because our lives stink! Nothing irrational about it. Often my faith is the only thing that kept me alive–in spite of psychiatry.
