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In reply to the discussion: "Cowardly, Selfish" [View all]ybbor
(1,554 posts)As someone who has thought of suicide many times myself, this week even, I never think of someone, of whom I know far too many, who has taken their life as cowardly or selfish. They/we are just really sick.
If anything, I have thought of them as brave, and when in my deepest throes of despair have asked for strength from them to help me do it. I can only thank The Lord that I have never been "brave" enough to follow through.
It is times like these that I pray for Robin having not known his personal hell, but having been in the neighborhood.
As said many times above it is the stigma attached that makes it worse. You feel that it is a sign of weakness. I am also the happy, jovial person on the outside to hide my inner torment. I would never tell any but my closest friends that I suffer, and even then never let them know I am suffering now. And even if they were to ask, I would never admit for fear of seeming weak.
Anywho, thanks for the amazing post that captures my illness so well, and allowing my personal rant. I think it was a little therapeutic for me.