Post to Discussion in Abnormal Psychology Considering Suicide Myths (03/10/12).

I suffered from depression too when I was growing up, and the impression you could give others is one of selfishness, of not wanting to just try and make an effort of getting along with others and going through the motions of life. But it is difficult to express the gaping emptiness one feels, the hopelessness that life is just a continued cycle of just going along for the sake of going along, rather than any experience of joy one can find in one's life. It is a sensation that lingers heavily, and one can wonder why more people don't committ suicide. Why invest yourself into anything? Why bother? Life is meaningless anyway, right? It is thoughts like these that revolve in the depressive's head, and without the introduction of how to appreciate one's life, and being surrounded by strong, healthy, positive people than this cycle of thinking can continue in its circles. The years go on and on, just proving that there is no point to existing, other than just living because our body continues to do so. This voice that one hears in one's head is our own negative self thinking, the thoughts that have become the mental weather. The depressed person attaches an importance to this way of thinking, and places value on these thoughts not knowing anything else. But it is important to realize that it is a cycle of thinking, of a chemical imbalance, of righting one'e behavior to align ourselves with recieving better thoughts, rather than continuing in behavior which perpetuates the cycle of being depressed. The depressed person, like most of us, often needs the introduction of some outside influence to get one out of the cycle of depression before it inevitably leads to catastrophe, before it robs one of too many years of one's short existence.