Do you believe that only mentally ill people commit suicide?

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my friend wasn't old by means, she was 28. And PTSD is generally acquired when faced with a life threatening situation - rape, car accidents, war veterans, are the most common reasons. PTSD follows with you almost for life and it becomes a matter of being able to cope with it and change your outlook on the situation. I do not believe she got PTSD from losing her job! I think as someone said earlier, life sucks sometimes and she couldn't take it anymore and ended her life thinking it would be a better option.

I know another lady in her 50s who was sexually abused as a child, and to this day she still has PTSD symptoms such as disassociation, depression, the nightmares, etc...but she also managed to get through college and is a teacher! So like I said earlier, I think people just have different tolerance levels, even my psychologist said that MOST human beings think about ending their lives at one point or another, but basically when it gets to a point where a person believes that there is no better way out and its completely hopeless, they go for suicide. yes, depression can cloud your judgement and make things more hopeless than they seem, but sometimes its questionable. IE: If you were sentenced to life in prison, and before they took you, you somehow had the option to end your life....would you do it? I can say I would.

Everything that you described sounds like mental illness.

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Purposefully ending one's own life is not an indication of sound mental health, excepting terminal situations.

There are other exceptions. As someone mentioned earlier, some cultures feel that people should kill themselves if they have dishonored themselves. Also, people kill themselves all the time to avoid the consequences of their actions, such as committing crimes for which they face lengthy sentences. That's cowardly, but it doesn't mean they weren't of sound mental health.

Those are not very common exceptions.