A very well-written and powerful post.
Trigger Warnings: suicide, mental health stigma, claims that suicide and suicidal people are selfish, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric hospitals
I just read on another blog that I follow that someone was stuck on a train because someone had jumped in front of the train. Rather than feel sympathy and sorrow for their fellow human being who had felt so sad and desperate that they chose to end their own life, this person claimed the person who committed suicide was selfish to have jumped in front of a train, causing people to be late. This is what they said:
“Something needs done about this, it happens too often and now my train is delayed again. These people should be locked up for disturbing all these timetables”
First of all, this person valued getting wherever they needed to go on time over the life and mental health of another human being. I…
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a day with depression 
Thank you so much for sharing this post. I have heard people refer to suicide as “selfish” so many times. I confess I may have even done so myself. But no more. This is a very important perspective.
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