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A moment of weakness is significantly different from a prolonged wearing down of defenses.
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Again, you seem to think I meant that people just up and kill themselves over something like stubbing their toe or dropping their phone in the toilet without the presence of underlying issues.
We keep talking in circles here, so I'm just going to lay it out.
A person's actions in those fleeting moments of weakness or irrationality are what define their level of depression. The straw that breaks the camels back, the final grain of sand on the scale. It could be something as minor as cutting yourself shaving to something as significant as having your ribs broken by the school bully, and everything in between. But it
is still fleeting and based in emotional instability, because if you don't act on those moments, you find that those moments heal.
That's not to say that all suicides are committed brashly and without thought. I've known people (who were quite close to me, in fact) who had carefully orchestrated how they would do it long in advanced, should the need arise.
But generally speaking, to kill oneself goes against all of our programmed survival mechanisms. You would
have to be acting irrationally; you don't care if it's wrong to kill yourself, and you don't care if the reason you're doing it is fucking stupid. About a third of all suicide victims are also inebriated at the time, which impairs one's ability to rationalize an emotional situation even more.
Like I said, all it takes is one bad day, one transitory event. The kinds of things that a healthy-minded individual would shrug off can be potentially lethal to those who are already in pain. It is because they are in pain that those fleeting moments feel like they are going to last forever.