This ends up being "self fulfilling prophecy." If you see people who commit suicide as mentally ill on the face of it, then you will interpret suicide as eviden

This ends up being "self fulfilling prophecy." If you see people who commit suicide as mentally ill on the face of it, then you will interpret suicide as evidence of insanity. I don't think that is at all accurate. A lot of people who are suicidal are people who have overwhelming problems that they don't know how to solve and when they tell people how overwhelmed they feel to the point of feeling like "Suicide is my only way out of this nightmare," they routinely get dismissed as crazy instead of being given some kind of meaningful help for their problems. PSA: If you (anyone -- not just the person I am replying to) know someone who is suicidal, helping them actually resolve their problems is one way to help them stop being suicidal. I was suicidal for a lot of years. I'm mostly not these days. So firsthand experience informs my opinion on this topic.