Stories About Suicide

The suicides of of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain has created a conversation about suicide dominated by the bullshit that suicide is a symptom of a disease called depression; that depression is a brain disease; that the mental health industry is the place for the disease to be treated; that the first line of treatment should be drugs! Depression is not a disease but a collection of beliefs and the emotions arising from those beliefs. Belief one: "I am no good and unworthy of love." Belief two: "The world is a cruel and loveless place that only creates pain." Belief three: "I am all alone in this world and am helpless to do anything about changing it." Belief four: "I have no hope for my future at all. Things are bad now and can only get worse." Put these beliefs together as an individual's view of life and you have an individual drowning in self- hatred, hatred and fear of the others in the world, despair, loneliness, helplessness, and hoplessness. Living with these belief and emotions makes suicide both probable, for themrational and positive. Help a person question any of these beliefs and change any of the emotions dramatically reduces the probablitiy of suicide.